Ipanema has announced that some of their hardware platforms are End-of-Life.
This is in addition to the previous End-Of-Life announcement on July 31 2009.
The End-Of-Life brochure available on their website lists the devices that are End-of-Life. The platforms will have a three-year end-of-support process, so are viable until three years from now.
The platforms concerned are:
ip|e1800axT replaced by ip|e1800axV2-T ip|e1800axSx replaced by ip|e1800axV2-Sx ip|e1000axT replaced by ip|e1000axV2-T ip|e1000axSx replaced by ip|e1000axV2-Sx ip|e5ax replaced by ip|e20ax ip|e5(V2) replaced by ip|e20
In addition, Ipanema also has retired the ip|e120ax platform, leaving just a single mid-range platform, the ip|e140ax. This makes sense, as using a single product SKU to support all the bandwidth ranges of the 120ax and 140ax devices will be much more economical, especially given the extra hard disk for the ax devices, compared to the older non-hard disk equipped ip|engines).
ip|e120ax replaced by ip|e140ax
New features available in the SALSA software will not necessarily work unless you have the right ip|engines to support it. For example, disk-based data compression will need a hard-disk equipped ip|engine (designated with an ax suffix).