Dear Mike, Let me add this to the mix as it seems to also concern the FCX family :
http://community.brocade.com/t5/Ethernet-Switches-Routers/Most-of-Brocade-switches-unsupported-in-last-IronWare-8-0-40/m-p/83986#U83986 Best regards. 2016-01-05 1:57 GMT+01:00 Mike Allen <[email protected]>: > Hi Robert, I am forwarding this into the product team at Brocade. It does > sound disconcerting, but what I will say is that new software will continue > to be released for the ICX6xxx series, it will be as patch or maintenance > releases. I believe the reason for this is that there are some major > features being added in the next couple of releases, and the older hardware > will not support some of these. Over the past few versions, some specific > minor features have been ported or back-rev'd into certain patch releases > as well, so I wouldn't view this as the end of the line in any way for the > ICX 6xxx product. There are some unique advantages in the newer 7xxx > hardware, but the 6610s are still very versatile platforms. > > Mike > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Robert Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> Just read release notes for IronWare 8.0.40. >> >> Most of products are NOT supported starting this release. I'm very >> negative supprised. >> It's very very dirty move from Brocade to existing customers as we have >> 400+ switches. >> >> For example compact switches like ICX6430-C12 released 2.5 year ago will >> NOT receive new software, a little disaster from customer point of view ? >> >> Just few me 3 cents, as now I'm regret that we invested in Brocade. >> Probably will not buy anything from them anymore after this action. Anybody >> has same point of view like me ? >> >> Rob >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundry-nsp mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > foundry-nsp mailing list > [email protected] > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp > -- Youssef BENGELLOUN-ZAHR
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