Cisco CATALYST 6500 SUPERVISOR ENGINE 2 2GE PLUS PFC-2 SPARE Specification Guide
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Product Bulletin No. EOL 1031
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for Cisco Catalyst 6500
Series Supervisor Engine 2, Switch Fabric Module 2, and Selected
Accessories and Software Releases
Series Supervisor Engine 2, Switch Fabric Module 2, and Selected
Accessories and Software Releases
Cisco Systems
®
announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco
®
Catalyst
®
6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2,
Switch Fabric Module 2, selected accessories and software releases. The last day to order the affected products is March 1,
2007. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center
(TAC) until February 28, 2012.
Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected products. Table 2, Table 3, Table 4, Table 5, and Table 6 list the
product part numbers affected by this announcement.
Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720 or Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32. The
Supervisor Engine 720 has a higher performance with integrated switch fabric module and supports advanced features such as IPv6, Multiprotocol
Label Switching (MPLS), Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), Network Address Translation (NAT), Encapsulated Remote Switched Port
Analyzer (ERSPAN), and so on in hardware. The Supervisor Engine 32 supports most of the same robust feature set in hardware as the Supervisor
Engine 720 at a performance optimized for wiring closets. Please see the “Product Migration Option” section for relevant details about the
replacement products.
Table 1.
End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2, Switch Fabric Module 2, and
Selected Accessories.
Selected Accessories.
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.
March 1, 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.
March 1, 2007
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.
May 31, 2007
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.
Note : From the End of Software Maintenance Releases Date to the Last Date of Support
("Extended Period of Support"), Cisco will provide only Critical Software Support defined as
network services impacting bugs or security vulnerabilities that have been identified by the
customer to Cisco TAC and subsequently qualified via Cisco's normal evaluation process.
Critical Software Support will be provided according to the following terms and conditions:
- Cisco TAC will first use commercially reasonable efforts to work with the Customer to
determine the locality of impact and to find a workaround for the problem.
- If an alternative workaround is not possible during the Extended Period of Support, then Cisco
will make commercially reasonable efforts to provide a bug fix solution to remedy the problem.
- If despite commercially reasonable efforts Cisco is unable to provide a software based
solution, it may be necessary for the Customer to remove or upgrade the impacted software
based systems to correct the problem.
("Extended Period of Support"), Cisco will provide only Critical Software Support defined as
network services impacting bugs or security vulnerabilities that have been identified by the
customer to Cisco TAC and subsequently qualified via Cisco's normal evaluation process.
Critical Software Support will be provided according to the following terms and conditions:
- Cisco TAC will first use commercially reasonable efforts to work with the Customer to
determine the locality of impact and to find a workaround for the problem.
- If an alternative workaround is not possible during the Extended Period of Support, then Cisco
will make commercially reasonable efforts to provide a bug fix solution to remedy the problem.
- If despite commercially reasonable efforts Cisco is unable to provide a software based
solution, it may be necessary for the Customer to remove or upgrade the impacted software
based systems to correct the problem.
February 29, 2008