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Product Bulletin No. 3149
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco MDS 9000
Family Advanced Services Module
Family Advanced Services Module
Cisco Systems
®
announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco
®
MDS 9000 Family Advanced Services Module.
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 May 15, 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.
Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Services Module, which hosts innovative intelligent fabric applications
such as network-hosted, network-assisted, and network-accelerated storage applications. Information about the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage
Services Module can be found at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6293
. Table 3 provides relevant information for migrating to the
replacement product.
Table 1.
End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Advanced Services Module
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.
November 15, 2005
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.
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.
August 15, 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.
May 15, 2007
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.
May 15, 2007
End of New Service
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.
May 15, 2007
End of Service Contract
Renewal Date
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.
November 15, 2010
Last Date of Support
The last date to receive service and support for the product. After this date, all support services
for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete.
May 15, 2011