1. Announcement Summary
Riverbed Technology hereby announces the end-of-availability of the Cascade Sensor appliance. The SKUs noted below will no longer be available for sale effective
April 1, 2014. Customers and partners may continue to order these products from Riverbed through March 31, 2014. Customers may continue to order Riverbed support services, on these products, subject to Riverbed’s end-of-support policy located at: www.riverbed.com/supportpolicy.
Table 1 identifies the relevant dates for end-of-availability and end-of-support:
Product
SKU/Part Number |
Description
|
Product Name
|
End of Availability
(Last Order Date) |
HW Appliances Only:
Date of End of Support for SW Feature Releases (Major/Minor) |
End of Support:
Hardware/SW Maintenance |
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|
2. Migration Plan
Customers who have purchased Sensor can continue to use it and maintenance will continue to be available as outlined in the table above.
Customers looking for the DPI and performance measurement features that Sensor offers should consider the Cascade Shark appliance which provides all of the functionality of Sensor and more.
For more information on Cascade Shark, please see: http://www.riverbed.com/products-solutions/products/performance-management/network-infrastructure/Network-Troubleshooting.html
3. End-of-Availability Policy
For information on Riverbed’s end-of-availability and end-of-support policy, please see www.riverbed.com/supportpolicy.
4. Additional Information
For additional information regarding this change, please contact Product Management at prod-mgmt@riverbed.com.