Cisco Cisco Unified IP Interactive Voice Response (IVR) 8.0(1) Information Guide
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Product Bulletin No. EOL1102
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco
Nuance Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Nuance
Text-To-Speech (TTS) for IP IVR and IPCC Express
Nuance Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Nuance
Text-To-Speech (TTS) for IP IVR and IPCC Express
Cisco Systems
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announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco
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Nuance Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Nuance
Text-To-Speech (TTS) for IP IVR and IPCC Express 3.X products. The last day to order the affected product is May 15, 2006. Customers
with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until August 27, 2009.
Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product. Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected
by this announcement.
This announcement makes the ASR/TTS sales model for IPIVR and IPCC Express consistent with the Cisco Customer Voice Portal where
partners work directly with ASR/TTS providers to procure the necessary technology. Cisco Systems has negotiated with the product
supplier of these products to ensure customers using these products will be able to migrate to new versions of the product after Cisco
Systems stops selling the existing product. Please note that this end-of-sale and end-of-life announcement affects product features that have
been available with IPIVR and IPCC Express 3.X products only. Cisco Systems will continue to renew SAS service agreements until End
of service contract renewal date, with customer understanding that Cisco will only be able to support the features compatible with IPIVR
and IPCC Express 3.X. Cisco Systems will no longer supply upgrades to ASR or TTS, and will stop selling and renewing Software
Application Support plus Upgrades (SASU) service agreements. Customers are encouraged to migrate to IPCC Express/IPIVR 4.0 and the
ASR and TTS products offered by Nuance. Those products provide significantly better speech recognition and speech synthesis
capabilities. To encourage customers to migrate, Cisco and Nuance will be providing a special offer to upgrade their ASR/TTS to Nuance’s
latest versions, available with IPCC Express/IPIVR 4.0. Cisco recommends that customers migrating to the latest versions of ASR/TTS,
which are compatible with IPCC Express/IPIVR 4.0, purchase support for those ASR/TTS products directly from Nuance. Table 1
describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product. Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this
announcement.
Table 1.
End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Nuance Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for IP IVR and Nuance
Text-To-Speech (TTS) for IP IVR.
Milestone
Definition
Date
End-of-life
announcement date
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.
a product is distributed to the general public.
March 15, 2006
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.
mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale after this date.
May 15, 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.
contract manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.
November 26, 2006
End of software
maintenance releases
date
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.
maintenance releases or bug fixes. After this date, Cisco Engineering
will no longer develop, repair, maintain, or test the product software.
August 28, 2007
End of new service
attachment date
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.
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.
August 28, 2007
End of service contract
renewal date
renewal date
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.
November 23, 2008