Cisco 7500 SERIES ROUTE SWITCH PROCESSOR 16 Specification Guide

Product End-of-Life Notice

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End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement
for the Cisco 7500 Series Router

EOL5426

Cisco Systems

announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco 7500

Series Router. The last day to order the Cisco 7500 Series Router is December 15, 2007.

Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco

Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin.

Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the Cisco 7500 Series

Router. Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement.

Cisco offers several different products to help customers migrate from the Cisco 7500 Series

Router. For service provider applications, customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco

12000 Series Router. Customers may consider the Cisco 7600 or 10000 Series Router as an

alternative solution, depending on requirements. For enterprise WAN deployments, customers are

encouraged to migrate to the Cisco 7600 Series Router, 7200 Series Router, or Cisco Catalyst

6500 Series Switch. Table 3 provides relevant information for service providers and Table 4

provides relevant information for enterprise companies migrating from the Cisco 7500 Series

Router. Additional information about the replacement product can be found at the Websites below.

Service Provider Deployments

The Cisco 12000 Series Router is the recommended migration platform:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps167/index.html

Cisco 7600 Series Router:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps368/index.html

Cisco 10000 Series Router:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps133/index.html

Enterprise WAN Deployments

Cisco 7600 Series Router:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps368/index.html

Cisco 7200 Series Router:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps341/index.html

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/index.html