Cisco 2612 ETHERNET TOKEN RING ROUTER WITH 2 WIC SLOTS Specification Guide
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Product Bulletin No. EOL1014
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement
for the Cisco 2612 Multiservice Access Router Platform
for the Cisco 2612 Multiservice Access Router Platform
Cisco Systems
®
announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco
®
2612 Multiservice Access Router Platform.
The last day to order the affected product is July 24, 2006. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive
support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until July 24, 2011.
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 3 provides relevant information for migrating to the replacement product.
The Cisco 2612 is normally deployed for Token Ring support. IBM no longer sells Token ring and customers have been migrating, or have plans
in place, to migrate their networks out of token ring to Ethernet and IP connectivity. Cisco continues to offer Token Ring support through a network
module interface card NM-1FE1R2W for the Cisco 3825 and 3845 Integrated Services Router platforms.
Replacement products for the Cisco 2612 Multiservice Access Router Platform are the Cisco 3825 or 3845 integrated services routers. Customers
are encouraged to migrate to the Integrated Services Router platforms which will continue to support token-ring topologies.
Information about replacement products can be found at the following URLs:
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Cisco 2600/3600/3700/3800 10/100 Ethernet/Token Ring Mixed Media NM:
Table 1.
End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco 2612 Multiservice Access Router Platform
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.
January 24, 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.
July 24, 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.
October 24, 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.
Please refer to Software Product Bulletins and Software End of Sale notices for further
clarification on support of End-of-Sale images.
July 24, 2007, or the
final maintenance
release of Cisco IOS
®
Software Release 12.3
mainline
Last Mainline Support
Support for Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4 mainline and beyond will not be available for
these products.
Cisco IOS Software
Release 12.3 Mainline
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.
July 24, 2007