NEC Express5800-R320 Notice

3151 Jay Street, Suite 110

Event

When

Last Order Accepted to NEC

October 30, 2015

Western Account Manager

Central Account Manager

Eastern Account Manager

Jack Schiavi (Acting Mgr)

Cynthia Echendu

Nick Cerrone

856-816-2695

[phone]

516-695-6328

[e-mail]

[e-mail]

[e-mail]

Santa Clara, CA 95050

NEC Express5800/R320c Series Fault Tolerant Servers

End of Life Notification

Effective Friday, December 4, 2015, the following NEC Express5800 Fault Tolerant Servers will have
reached their manufacturing production End of Life (EOL) cycle. Last applicable time to purchase

Express5800/R320c-E4

Express5800/R320c-M4

NEC will continue to provide technical support for customers currently have in force an active
maintenance contract or standard warranty period for those NEC Fault Tolerant Server solutions.
Maintenance contracts for the above products will not be offered that would have the effect of
extending support for any unit beyond these specific Fault Tolerant server models maximum End of
Service Life (EOSL) period, which is currently estimated as December 31, 2020. Maximum support for
any unit is five (5) years from the date of initial sale.

Key dates for this process are:

NEC will no longer accept new orders for these Fault Tolerant Servers after October 30, 2015 and all
orders will be fulfilled1 by December 31, 2015.

NEC recommends its follow-on servers, the Express5800/R320d models as new solutions. Customers

should contact their NEC Sales Managers or NEC Partners to ask about NEC’s plan for upgrading current

servers or if there are questions about the EOL process and effects.

Support materials for NEC’s Fault Tolerant Servers can be found on the NEC Corporation of America
website at: www.necam.com/support. (Information is subject to change without notification.)

For technical support questions, please call: 1-877-632-0064 or email: [e-mail]

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NEC will use commercially reasonable best efforts to meet this date. Dates are subject to change.

04-30-2015