The State of Enterprise Hardware End-of-Life — 2026

Of the 2727 enterprise hardware products EOSL.ai tracks, 53% (1442) are past their vendor end-of-service-life date — every tracked SKU group is unsupported. This database focuses on gear with a published or computed end-of-life date, so it over-represents retired hardware; it is not a measure of the global installed base.

By tracked-product count, Fortinet has the most (639 products, 440 past EOSL). 18 vendors are tracked in total. See the per-vendor table above.

166 tracked products have at least one SKU group reaching end-of-service-life within 12 months. Each links to the vendor's own end-of-life bulletin.

Median support tail (end-of-sale to last date of support) from vendor-published date pairs in this database: Avaya 72 months (~6.0 years, n=28); IBM 68 months (~5.7 years, n=478); Brocade 62 months (~5.2 years, n=15); Calix 62 months (~5.2 years, n=19); Cisco 60 months (~5.0 years, n=150); SonicWall 60 months (~5.0 years, n=19); Arista 60 months (~5.0 years, n=18); Dell 60 months (~5.0 years, n=432); Cisco Meraki 60 months (~5.0 years, n=121); Juniper 60 months (~5.0 years, n=208); Fortinet 60 months (~5.0 years, n=831); Palo Alto Networks 60 months (~5.0 years, n=29); Extreme Networks 60 months (~5.0 years, n=61); Cambium Networks 49 months (~4.1 years, n=161); Netgate 26 months (~2.2 years, n=32); Zyxel 24 months (~2.0 years, n=199). Policy-derived dates are excluded from these medians.

Every date is taken from the vendor's official end-of-life bulletin and linked for verification; where a vendor publishes no per-model EOSL date, it is computed from their published support-life policy and labelled "computed". EOSL.ai tracks 11,442 part numbers across 2727 products and 18 vendors.