Authoritative source data
Every milestone date is sourced from the OEM's published End-of-Sale / End-of-Life bulletins. Source URLs are recorded per OEM. We do not extrapolate dates — if a date is unpublished, the entry is omitted.
Original Research · Hardware Lifecycle
Curated End-of-Sale, End-of-Software-Maintenance, End-of-Vulnerability-Maintenance, and Last-Date-of-Support dates across nine OEMs in the 2023–2031 lifecycle window. Each model annotated with WUC commentary on TPM economics and refresh-vs-extend trade-offs.
Browse by OEM
Per-OEM pages list every active and recently-EOL'd product with full milestone dates plus WUC commentary on TPM economics for that platform.
Methodology
Every milestone date is sourced from the OEM's published End-of-Sale / End-of-Life bulletins. Source URLs are recorded per OEM. We do not extrapolate dates — if a date is unpublished, the entry is omitted.
Each entry records End of Sale (EoS), End of Software Maintenance (EoSWM), End of Vulnerability/Security Maintenance (EoVSM), and Last Date of Support (LDoS). This matches Cisco's lifecycle terminology and maps cleanly to Dell, HPE, NetApp, and other OEM equivalents.
Reference calendars exist on every OEM's site. What's missing in those is independent commentary on TPM economics per platform — when SmartNet / ProSupport / SupportEdge renewal still makes sense versus when TPM dominates. That commentary is the value-add here.
OEMs publish EOL bulletins continuously. We refresh this calendar quarterly — checking each OEM's lifecycle page, integrating new bulletins, flagging date extensions. The `last_updated` value on each per-OEM page is honest.
How to read this
Last day the OEM accepts new orders. Existing units remain fully supported through subsequent milestones. EoS is the procurement deadline, not the support deadline.
Last day the OEM releases bug-fix software updates. After this date, you keep your installed software but no new releases. Critical for shops with active feature roadmap consumption.
Last day the OEM releases security patches for known vulnerabilities. After this date, new CVE disclosures are not patched. This is the compliance-critical milestone for PCI/HIPAA/SOX environments.
Final day the OEM accepts support cases. After LDoS, no OEM engagement is possible; the platform is third-party-maintenance or replacement only. WUC TPM covers all platforms below indefinitely post-LDoS.
A 60-minute fleet lifecycle review aligns your asset inventory against the EOSL calendar and produces a 36-month refresh-and-TPM roadmap with documented cost trade-offs.
Reference data · Open to industry peers · Quarterly refresh cadence