Retired and end-of-life products
As new products and features are introduced over the years, it
eventually becomes necessary to retire some of the old. Our philosophy is
that old products should continue to remain available as long as they are both
useful to our customers and maintainable by us.
In this context, "Useful" means that the product continues to
serve its original purpose in both an efficient and economical manner, i.e., it
has not been replaced by something else that is clearly much better. For
hardware products, "Maintainable" means that the component parts can still be
purchased to build them; and for software products, it means that the platforms
and interfaces required to run and test them are still available.
Of course, for an old item to remain in our product line there
must also be some continued interest in keeping it. Some perfectly fine things
sometimes get retired simply because of lack of interest. We maintain a "single
thread" software model, in which every feature that was ever delivered to
anybody is mainlined into a single deliverable product with no orphan branches.
As such, it is occasionally necessary to clean house by pruning some unused
limbs.
Retirement schedule for hardware products
Description of product or
feature | Last Ship Date |
IRIS TM on RHEL3 Linux (customers
should upgrade to RHEL5) | Q4 2007 |
RCP02TM radar controller boards and
chassis (Replaced by the RCP8 TM) | Q4 2003 |
RVP7 TM /Main and RVP7 TM
/AUX signal processor boards and chassis (Replaced by the RVP8
TM) | Q4 2003 |
Parallel interfaces on RVP TM
processors (The RVP8 TM supports only Ethernet interfaces, but
not parallel) | Q4 2002 |
RxNet7 TM integrated Linux PC boards
and chassis (Replaced by IRIS TM /RCP8 TM /RVP8
TM packaging options) | Q4 2002 |
RVP6 TM /Main and RVP6 TM
/AUX signal processor boards and chassis (Replaced by RVP7
TM) | 1998 |
Retirement schedule for software products
Description of product or
feature | Last Ship Date |
IRIS TM on HP-UX (customers will need
to upgrade to Linux) | Q4 2006 |
IRIS TM support for the RVP6
TM processor | Q4 2006 |
IRIS TM support for Magneto-Optical
drives. Customers should use DVD's instead. | Q3 2004 |
IRIS TM on HP-UX 10.20 (Customers
will need to upgrade to HP-UX 11.11) | Q4 2004 |
IRIS TM on Silicon Graphics (IRIX)
platforms | Q4 2003 |
IRIS TM LINK serial format | 2002 |
IRISTM on Digital Equipment VAX (VMS)
platform | 1996 |
IRIS TM on IBM RS6000 (AIX)
platform | 1996 |
Retired product manuals
Description of manual | Last Ship Date |
RVP7TM Digital IF Signal
Processor | Q4 2003 |
RCP02TM Radar Control
Processor | Q4 2003 |
RxNet7TM | Q4 2003 |
RVP6TM Signal Processor |
1998 |