Product Life-Cycle

Appliances

Appliance owners who have valid support contracts for that hardware are able to use the Hardware Replacement Service as specified in the Support Service Description.

The end of sales date is the last day given appliance model is generally available for purchase. Stonesoft aims to maintain software support for each appliance model in new major software versions for two (2) years after the end of sales date. After that, the current major software version is fixed as the last major software version that supports the given appliance model and only maintenance versions for that major version are supported.

For reasons of technical compatibility, there may be exceptions to this general rule.

After five (5) years from the appliance end of sales date the appliance reaches end of life (EoL).

The tables below list the end of sales dates for appliances that are no longer available.

For older models, only the last day to renew one year maintenance is listed. The tables also provide information about the actual last major software version that supports the given appliance model.

StoneGate Firewall/VPN Appliances

Appliance Model End of sales End of support
Last supported software version
SG-250
SG-500-50
SG-500-100
SG-570
  2009-03-10 Firewall/VPN 4.2
SGV-200   2011-04-30 Firewall/VPN 4.2
SG-200   2011-09-30 Firewall/VPN 4.2
SG-1000-Q 2006-07-27 2011-07-27 Firewall/VPN 4.2
SG-3000-C
SG-3000-F
2006-11-17 2011-11-17 Firewall/VPN 4.2
SG-4000 2007-09-29 2012-09-29 Firewall/VPN 5.1
FW-300
FW-300V
2008-08-30 2013-08-30 Firewall/VPN 5.1
SG-250e
SG-570e
2008-11-19 2013-11-19 Firewall/VPN 5.1
SG-500e-50
SG-500e-100
2009-01-27 2014-01-27 Firewall/VPN 5.1
SG-3100-F 2007-06-05 2012-06-05 Firewall/VPN 5.1
SG-1100 2008-12-29 2013-12-29  
SG-3100 2008-05-28 2013-05-28 Firewall/VPN 5.1
FW-1020 2008-07-31 2013-07-31 Firewall/VPN 5.1
FW-1050
FW-1200
FW-1200F
2008-09-12 2013-09-12 Firewall/VPN 5.1
FW-4000L 2009-09-30 2014-09-30  
FW-1020e
FW-1050e
2009-12-31 2014-12-31  

StoneGate IPS Appliances

Appliance Model End of sales
End of support
Last supported software version
SGI-ANZ 2006-07-30 2011-07-30 IPS 4.2
SGI-100A 2006-07-30 2011-07-30 IPS 4.2
SGI-100 2006-07-30 2011-07-30 IPS 4.2
SGI-1000 2006-07-30 2011-07-30 IPS 4.2
SGI-2000S 2008-09-30 2013-09-30 IPS 4.3
SGI-200 2008-09-30 2013-09-30 IPS 4.3
SGI-20A 2008-09-30 2013-09-30 IPS 4.3
IPS-2000 2009-12-31 2014-12-31  
IPS-400 2009-12-31 2014-12-31  


StoneGate SSL VPN Appliances

Appliance Model End of sales
End of support
Last supported software version
SSL-400 2008-12-31 2013-12-31  
SSL-2000 2009-12-31 2014-12-31  


End of Sales (EOS) / Last order date to renew one year maintenance also applies to the appropriate Single-Site appliances (SGS/ SGIS).


Software

The general policy for support in case of a software problem is that the previous major version is supported for six (6) months after the release of a newer major software version. The first two digits of the version number specify the major version and the third digit is a maintenance version number. For example version 4.3.2 is major version 4.3 and 2 is the maintenance version number.

Major versions that are the last supported versions for some StoneGate appliance models may still receive support and critical or security fixes even after this six (6) month period.

Product End of sales End of support
StoneGate Firewall & VPN for SPARC 2003-12-15 2004-12-31
StoneGate Firewall & VPN for IBM iSeries (POWER4) 2005-10-10 2007-02-10
StoneBeat ServerCluster 2006-03-31 2006-06-30
StoneGate Firewall & VPN for IBM i5 2006-10-15 2008-12-31
StoneBeat FullCluster on Microsoft Windows 2000
StoneBeat WebCluster on Microsoft Windows 2000
StoneBeat SecurityCluster on Microsoft Windows 2000
2006-12-31 2007-12-31
StoneBeat WebCluster on Linux
StoneBeat FullCluster on Linux
StoneBeat SecurityCluster on Linux
2008-12-31 2009-12-31
StoneBeat HA
StoneBeat Security Cluster on Solaris
StoneBeat WebCluster on Solaris
StoneBeat Fullcluster on Solaris
2009-09-30 2010-12-31


More information

For more detailed information about support for StoneGate products, please contact your local Stonesoft representative.