Cisco’s PIX515E Series End of Support & Migration Info

Cisco has announced the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the PIX515E security applicance series. Here are some of the highlights of Cisco’s EOL/EOS annoucement and where you can go for more information.

Highlights of the Cisco EOS/EOL annoucement -
End-of-Sale Date – July 28th, 2008
End of New Service Attachment Date – July 28th, 2009
End of Service Contract Renewal Date – October 23, 2012
Last Date of Support – July 27th, 2013

Migration Recommendations -
Cisco PIX Security Appliance customers are encouraged to migrate to Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances. Built on the same software foundation as Cisco PIX Security Appliances, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series offers more robust firewall and IPsec VPN capabilities, as well as many additional benefits, including:

• Significantly better performance and scalability,
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN support (including clientless, portal-based remote access),
• Advanced Unified Communications (voice/video) security
• A modular design that allows you to add features such as intrusion prevention (IPS), anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-phishing, and URL filtering

For more information about end-of-life, end-of-support, or migration parts for the Cisco PIX515E series, please visit Cisco’s site at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5708/ps5709/ps2030/end_of_life_notice_for_the_Cisco_PIX_515E_Security_Appliance.html

For more information on the ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Applicances, check out http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/index.html.