1. Announcement Summary
Riverbed Technology hereby announces the end-of-availability of SteelCentral AppResponse appliance model 2200. These systems will no longer be available for sale effective “immediately”. Due to unexpected demand, all available supply of this product has been exhausted.
Customers may continue to order Riverbed support services on these systems subject to Riverbed's end-of-availability and 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
|
Date EOA Announced
|
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
The alternative for most use cases will be the SteelCentral AppResponse 11 model 2170. For situations requiring AppResponse 9 software, the alternative is the AppResponse model 3300.
More information is available at https://www.riverbed.com/document/fpo/0476_RVBD_SteelCentral_SS_US_070615AS.pdf and http://media-cms.riverbed.com/documents/SteelCentral_AppResponse_SpecSheet.pdf.
3. End-of-Availability Policy
For information on Riverbed's end of sale and end of support policy, please see www.riverbed.com/supportpolicy.
4. Additional Information
For additional information regarding this change, please contact David Winikoff at david.winikoff@riverbed.com.