ASA 5545X EOL date

[NetExprt]

Hi ,

please I totaly confused about the EOL date of NGFW ASA5545-X series 

would you please confrim the date of EOS ,EOL it is not clear in cisco site

[Seb Rupik]

Hi there,

An EOL has not yet been published for that platform:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/asa-5500-series-next-generation-firewalls/eos-eol-notice-listing.html

...please share a link if you have seen anything to the contrary.

cheers,

Seb.

[lwilfredoflor]

Hi there,

actually according to Cisco's website, there is not date for EOS/EOL for Cisco ASA 5545-X , the product is still as available and full support.

regards,

[balaji.bandi]

Yes, correct as of now cisco not announced on this product.

[nspasov]

Seb is correct. No current EoL/EoS announcements have been made for the ASA-5545-X

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[Karsten Iwen]

You already got the direct answer on your question. But why are you asking? Do you already have this device or do you plan to buy one?

If you plan to buy a new firewall, don't buy this device any more, look at the Firepower 1k and Firepower 2k.

If you are running this firewall with Firepower services and you are due to a renewal of your subscription, also check to replace the firewall with the mentioned platforms. The new firewalls with 3Yr-license is same price or less than the renewal of the Firepower licenses for the 5545-X.

[robertpatrick]

Still waiting for Cisco to publish clear guidance on End-of-Life (EOL) and Last Day of Support (LDOS) information for the Cisco ASA 5545-X appliances. Products are no longer available for sale. Cisco Live presentations suggest LDOS is Sept 30, 2025, but doesn't show the "X" in the product name.

Reference: https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/global-event/docs/2024/pdf/BRKSEC-2239.pdf

[Marvin Rhoads]

The lack of an "-X" is a typo. The LDOS is indeed Sept 30, 2025.

There is not now and never was any such model as an ASA 5545 (non-X). The -X suffix in all the 5506/5508/5512/5515/5525/5545/5555 models indicates they use symmetric multicore processors (SMP - as indicated in the filename of the ASA software images they run). This was a step up from the single core CPUs used in the previous generation 5505/5510/5520/5540/5550.

[andrewnetworkguy80]

Yeah, but what about vulnerability support. One would think if you were advertising it's supported that Cisco would cover vulnerabilities until then but that doesn't appear to be the case. 

[nspasov]

@Marvin Rhoads The lack of "X" is a typo. Regarding your question, software support and maintenance, including the patching of vulnerabilities, are tracked independently from hardware. For instance, the last ASA version available for the ASA-5545-X is 9.14.4. The EoS/EoL announcement and details for the 9.14.4 release can be found here. 

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