Cisco 1602-R ROUTER ETHERNET/SERIAL MODULE WITH 56K DSU Specification Guide

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Product Bulletin No. 1865

End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement

of Cisco

1600-R

Series Routers

This Product Bulletin serves as the formal notification of the End of Sales (EoS),

End of Engineering, and End of Life (EoL) for the

Cisco 1601-R, Cisco 1602-R,

Cisco 1603-R, Cisco 1604-R, and Cisco 1605-R routers. The replacement products

are the Cisco 1700 series routers that offer modular design, higher performance, and

additional services including 3DES VPN, firewall, voice, and DSL broadband. For

data and security services, the Cisco 1721 with optional WAN interface cards is a

direct substitute for the Cisco 1600-R routers. For voice solutions, the Cisco 1751

and 1760 support data and voice integration with analog and digital voice support.

The Cisco 1760 also offers 19-inch rack-mount access solutions. For additional

flexibility and higher performance, the Cisco 2600XM router platform can also be

considered as replacement products.

The Cisco 1600 Series router family has been a tremendously successful platform for branch

office solutions. As more customers deploy networked-based and Internet applications, they

require a routing platform with higher performance and advanced services support for voice,

broadband DSL, 3DES VPN with hardware encryption, firewall and Intrusion Detection.

The Cisco 1700 Series delivers the solutions to meet these needs. As a result, customers have

steadily migrated to the Cisco 1700 Series Routers. Customers who are ordering the Cisco

1600 routers are advised to transition to the Cisco 1700 Series Routers (see Table 1 for Cisco

1600-R and Cisco 1700 feature comparisons). Table 2 lists Cisco 1600-R SKUs affected by

the End-of-Sale announcement. Key dates for EOS/EOL are detailed in Table 3. The

replacement products are detailed in Table 4.

The Cisco 1700 Series Overview and Technology Migration interactive tool is available at:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/smbiz/flash/1700/

For more information on the Cisco 1700 series routers, please visit the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/go/1700

The following URL provides the Cisco 1600 to 1700 Series Migration Guide (internal/

partner/reseller log-in required)

http://www.cisco.com/cpropart/salestools/cc/pd/rt/1600/sales/csst_st.pdf