I do not see 25 year of software support on these? There is threes years between End of Sale and End of Vulnerabilty and Security Support (Patching) on the 6503-E for example [0]
If you mean the time between the first day of manufacturing and the end of software patching, it will be higher, but it’s definitely not 25, years. The 6503 (not the 6503-E) went end of hw support in 2012 [1], patching must have stopped a couple of years prior to this, but it’s so old I can’t find the EoL notice for this…
Finally if you mean “time between first day of manufacturing and end of patching”, then the the RV110W has at least 7 years. I can find article listing it in 2011 already [2], end of patching was 2018 [3].
I completely agree on the idea of pushing for open sourcing hardware and firmware when a device becomes end of support, but we also need to get the facts straight.
Headlines like “cisco won’t patch legacy VPN routers” are simply disingenuous and pure clickbait. But they do make me smile =) so it’s not all bad.
If you mean the time between the first day of manufacturing and the end of software patching, it will be higher, but it’s definitely not 25, years. The 6503 (not the 6503-E) went end of hw support in 2012 [1], patching must have stopped a couple of years prior to this, but it’s so old I can’t find the EoL notice for this…
Finally if you mean “time between first day of manufacturing and end of patching”, then the the RV110W has at least 7 years. I can find article listing it in 2011 already [2], end of patching was 2018 [3].
I completely agree on the idea of pushing for open sourcing hardware and firmware when a device becomes end of support, but we also need to get the facts straight.
Headlines like “cisco won’t patch legacy VPN routers” are simply disingenuous and pure clickbait. But they do make me smile =) so it’s not all bad.
[0] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/c...
[1] https://www.curvature.com/resources/tech-guides/cisco-6500-e...
[2] https://www.cnet.com/videos/cisco-rv110w-wireless-n-vpn-fire...
[3] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/sm...