Cisco Cisco VPN Acceleration Module Information Guide
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Product Bulletin No. 3129
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco VPN
Services Module (VPNSM) and Associated Cisco Catalyst 6500
Series Security System Bundles
Services Module (VPNSM) and Associated Cisco Catalyst 6500
Series Security System Bundles
Cisco Systems
®
announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life for the Cisco
®
VPN Services Module (VPNSM) and associated
Cisco Catalyst
®
6500 Series/Cisco 7600 Series security system bundles. The last day to order the affected products is
May 31, 2006. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance
Center (TAC) until May 31, 2011. The last Cisco IOS
®
Software release supported with Cisco VPNSM is 12.2(18)SXF until the
end of software maintenance milestone is reached.
Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected products. Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this
announcement.
Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco IPSec VPN Shared Port Adapter (VPN SPA), which supports Data Encryption Standard (DES),
Triple DES (3DES), and adds Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for 128-, 192-, and 256-bit AES keys. Information about the replacement
product can be found at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6267/products_data_sheet0900aecd8027cbb2.html
Table 3 provides information for migrating to the replacement product.
Table 1.
End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for Cisco VPNSM Associated Catalyst 6500 Series Security System Bundles
Milestone
Definition
Date
End-of-Life Announcement Date
The date the document that announces the end of sale and end of life of a
product is distributed to the general public.
December 1, 2005
End-of-Sale Date
The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms.
The product is no longer for sale after this date.
May 31, 2006
Last Shipment Date
The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its contract
manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.
August 31, 2006
End of Software Maintenance
Releases Date
The last date that Cisco Engineering may release any final software
maintenance releases or bug fixes. After this date, Cisco Engineering
will no longer develop, repair, maintain, or test the product software.
May 31, 2007
End of Routine Failure Analysis Date
The last-possible date a routine failure analysis may be performed to
determine the cause of product failure or defect.
May 31, 2007
End of New Service Attachment Date
For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-and-support
contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract
or add the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support
contract.
May 31, 2007
End of Service Contract Renewal Date
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.
October 30, 2010
Last Date of Support
The last date to receive service and support for the product. After this date,
all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes
obsolete.
May 31, 2011