Juniper Hardware Lifecycle Policy
What Juniper's published policy says about lifecycle phases, support windows, and end-of-life timing.
This page summarizes Juniper Networks Product End-of-Life Policy & Procedure (Copyright 2023 Juniper Networks, Inc.) and quotes Juniper's own phase definitions verbatim. For the authoritative current statement, follow the link to Juniper's policy doc.
Lifecycle phases
| Juniper phase | Juniper's definition (verbatim) | Our field |
|---|---|---|
| Last Order Date (LOD) or End of Sale | "The last date on which purchase orders must be placed for the affected Juniper Product and for new support services contracts for such Product." | end_of_sale_date |
| End of Hardware Failure Analysis Date (EOHFA) | "The date after which Juniper is no longer committed to perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis of a Hardware failure as needed." | end_of_sw_maintenance_date |
| End of Engineering Date (EOE) | "The date after which Juniper no longer committed to furnish engineering level support (i.e., bug fixes, further main releases, maintenance releases, service releases and/or patches) for the affected Juniper Product." | end_of_vuln_security_support_date |
| End of Support (EOS) | "The last date to receive maintenance support (i.e., access to Juniper technical support engineers, access to software releases, Online tools, Hardware replacement. But, for the avoidance of doubt, excluding engineering support) for the affected Juniper Product." | last_date_of_support |
Default support windows
When a Juniper Product model reaches its End of Life (EOL), Juniper Networks communicates important milestones on a Product-by-Product basis via an End-of-Life Notification (EOLN). The EOLN will include the critical milestone dates that will occur in the typical Juniper Product end of life process. Rules and milestone dates specified in the EOLN for a particular Juniper Product may vary from the guidelines stated in this EOL Policy.
Source: Juniper Networks Product End-of-Life Policy & Procedure.
Juniper products tracked here
We track lifecycle dates for 3336 Juniper products across 12 platform families. See the full Juniper catalog for upcoming end-of-sale, end-of-support, and replacement information per SKU.
For cross-vendor terminology comparison, see lifecycle terminology. For compliance impact of vendor lifecycle milestones, see compliance and insurance.
Sources
- Juniper Networks Product End-of-Life Policy & Procedure: the vendor's own policy doc.
- Juniper End of Life Products and Milestones (per-product EOLN listing)
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