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Product Bulletin #598
Cisco 200 Series End of Life for
Open Data-Link Interface (ODI)This announcement concerns the discontinuation of the Open Data-Link Interface (ODI) driver software that has been part of the Cisco 200 series product line.The ODI driver is used with the Cisco 201 and 202 hardware to provide Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) functionality on MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 environments. This driver software is being discontinued because of its increasing obsolescence after the availability of a Cisco 200 network driver interface specification (NDIS) driver for Windows 95, as well as the widespread conversion from Windows V.3.x to Windows 95 in the marketplace.
This change will facilitate Cisco Systems' focus on Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms, utilizing features that are not supported in Windows V.3.
Open Data-Link Interface Timeline
Although the ODI software will no longer be shipped with the Cisco 200 product after April 1, 1997, it will still be available for download by Cisco Connection Online registered users for an anticipated period of four months after it ceases to ship.
Customers are encouraged to move rapidly to Windows 95 environments. Because the embedded support for networks of Windows 95, managing networked PCs is much easier in Windows 95 than in previous operating systems.
Future enhancements of the Cisco 200 series software including eventual support for Windows NT clients, will be made in the NDIS-based software.
