EoS/EoL for the Cisco Device Provisioning Engine 2115 Appliance

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Updated:July 28, 2005

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End-of-Life Notice, No. 2959

Cisco Systems ® announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco ® Device Provisioning Engine 2115 appliance for Cisco Broadband Access Center (BAC). The last day to order the affected product is January 31, 2006. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until January 31, 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 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco Device Provisioning Engine 2115 Appliance


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.	July 31, 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.	January 31, 2006
Last Ship 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.	April 30, 2006
End of SW 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.	January 31, 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.	January 31, 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.	January 31, 2007
End of Service Contract Renewal Date	The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.	April 30, 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.	January 31, 2011

Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement


End-of-Sale Product Part Number	Product Description	Replacement Product Part Number	Replacement Product Description
DPE-2115-K9	Device Provisioning Engine 2115, distributed hardware appliance for Cisco BAC	DPE-SOL-2.7	Software version of Device Provisioning Engine

Product Migration Options

The recommended replacement for the Cisco Device Provisioning Engine 2115 appliance is the Cisco Device Provisioning Engine 2.7, which is a software version of this distributed Cisco BAC component. The functionality of these two products has not changed. Cisco is simply no longer offering this component of Cisco BAC as a hardware appliance and is now providing in software form only.

Table 3. Product Comparisons


Feature	Cisco Device Provisioning Engine 2115	Cisco Device Provisioning Engine 2.7
Hardware appliance	Yes	No

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.

Customers may be able to continue to purchase the end-of-sale product through the Cisco Authorized Refurbished Equipment program. Refurbished units of the end-of-sale product are available in limited supply for sale in certain countries on a first-come, first-served basis. For information about the refurbished equipment program, go to: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/ordering/or6/or17/order_refurbished_equipment_program_description.html.

For More Information

For more information about the Cisco Device Provisioning Engine 2115, visit: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/ps529/index.html or contact your local account representative.

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 end-of-life/end-of-sale information, go to: http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/FieldNoticeTool/field-notice.

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