Product Bulletin No. 2345
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Fiber Distributed Data Interface for the Cisco 7500 Series Router
Cisco Systems® announces the end of life of the Cisco® Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) Port Adapter for the Cisco 7200 Series and 7500 Series routers. The last day to order the Cisco FDDI port adapters is September 30, 2004. Customers will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until September 30, 2009. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the Cisco FDDI port adapters. Table 2 lists the part numbers affected by this announcement.
Customers are encouraged to migrate to Ethernet and packet-over-SONET (POS).
Table 1 End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco FDDI Port Adapters for the Cisco 7200 and 7500 Series
| 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.
|
October 31, 2003
|
| 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.
|
September 30, 2004
|
| 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.
|
December 31, 2004
|
| 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.
|
September 30, 2005
|
| 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.
|
September 30, 2005
|
| 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.
|
September 30, 2005
|
| End of service contract renewal date |
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product. The extension or renewal period cannot extend beyond the last date of support.
|
June 30, 2009
|
| 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.
|
September 30, 2009
|
|
Table 2 Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
| End-of-Sale Product Part Number |
Product Description |
| PA-F/FD-SM |
1-Port FDDI Full-Duplex Single-Mode Port Adapter
|
| PA-F/FD-SM= |
1-Port FDDI Full-Duplex Single-Mode Port Adapter
|
| PA-F/FD-MM |
1-Port FDDI Full-Duplex Multimode Port Adapter
|
| PA-F/FD-MM= |
1-Port FDDI Full-Duplex Multimode Port Adapter
|
|
Product Migration Options
There is no direct replacement for these FDDI port adapters. Customers are encouraged to consider technologies such as Ethernet and POS.
Customers can use the Cisco Technology Migration Plan (TMP) to trade in products and receive credit toward the purchase of new Cisco equipment. For more information about Cisco TMP, go to:
http://www.cisco.com/go/tradein/
The Cisco TMP application requires all users to have a Cisco.com user ID.
Table 3 Product Transition and Description
| Product Transition |
Product Description |
| PA-POS-OC3MM |
1-Port Packet/SONET OC3c/STM1 Multimode Port Adapter
|
| PA-POS-OC3SMI |
1-Port Packet/SONET OC3c/STM1 Singlemode (IR) Port Adapter
|
| PA-POS-OC3SML |
1-Port Packet/SONET OC3c/STM1 Singlemode (LR) Port Adapter
|
| PA-POS-2OC3 |
2 Port Packet/SONET OC3c/STM1 Port Adapter
|
| PA-FE-TX |
2-Port Fast Ethernet 100BASE-TX Port Adapter
|
| PA-FE-FX |
2-Port Fast Ethernet 100BASE-FX Port Adapter
|
| GEIP+ |
Enhanced Gigabit Ethernet
|
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Additional Information
For more information about Cisco products, please contact your Cisco account manager and/or Cisco Channel Partner.
For more information about the Cisco End-of-Life Policy, go to:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/prod_end_of_life.html
To subscribe to receive EOL/EOS information please go to:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/FieldNoticeTool/field-notice
