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Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Perpetual Licensing for Cisco Expressway Series. The last day to order the affected product(s) is January 23, 2021. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product(s). Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement. For customers with active and paid service and support contracts, support will be available under the terms and conditions of customers' service contract.
Customers should migrate from Expressway Series (Perpetual) to Expressway in Cisco Collaboration Flex Plan 3.0. The ordering guide for Flex Plan 3.0 can be found at the link below: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/partners/tools/collaboration-ordering-guides.html.
HCS Partners may continue to utilise HCS perpetual licensing for their existing HCS end customers however, Cisco recommends moving customers to Cisco Collaboration Flex Plan subscription licensing, that enables the customer to take advantage of the rich Collaboration feature set available in that offer.
This is a commercial model change only to perpetual licenses. Customer premise deployments are available under Flex 3.0
End-of-life milestones
Table 1. End-of-life milestones and dates for the Perpetual Licensing for Cisco Expressway 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. |
September 23, 2020 |
| 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 23, 2021 |
| 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 23, 2021 |
| 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 23, 2022 |
| 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 23, 2022 |
| End of Service Contract Renewal Date: |
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product. |
January 23, 2022 |
| Last Date of Support: |
The last date to receive applicable service and support for the product as entitled by active service contracts or by warranty terms and conditions. After this date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete. |
January 31, 2024 |
Table 2. Product part numbers affected by this announcement
| End-of-Sale Product Part Number |
Product Description |
Replacement Product Part Number |
Replacement Product Description |
Additional Information |
| EXPWY-VE-C-K9= |
Cisco Expressway-C Server, Virtual Edition |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| EXPWY-VE-E-K9= |
Cisco Expressway-E Server, Virtual Edition |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| JABG-EXP-2SBDL-K9= |
Jabber Guest 2 Session Bundle |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-EXP-C |
Enable Expressway-C Feature Set |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-EXP-C-PAK |
Expressway Series, Expressway-C PAK |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-EXP-JITC |
Expressway Advanced Account Security (JITC) |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-EXP-MIG-DSK |
Expressway Migration Desktop Endpoint License v12 |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-EXP-MIG-ROOM |
Expressway Migration Room License v12 |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-EXP-MSFT-MIG |
Mig -Advanced Interoperability for Lync and 3rd Party Endpoi |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-EXP-RMS-MIG |
Mig-Expressway Rich Media Session |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-EXP-RMS= |
Spare Rich Media Session for Expressway Series |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-STPACK-2EX90B |
B116355MSPEX90 Movi Starter pack + 2xEX90 Demo Bundle |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-STPACK-DEMOB |
B116355MSP50DEMO Movi Starter Pack Express Demo Bundle |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-STPACK-XPR |
B116355MSP50 Movi Starter Pack Express Edition |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| MIG-LIC-VCS-OCS |
Mig - VCS Microsoft Interoperability |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| MIG-LIC-VCSE-10 |
Mig-Video Communication Server - 10 Traversal Calls |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| MIG-LIC-VCSE-20 |
Mig-Video Communication Server - 20 Traversal Calls |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| MIG-LIC-VCSE-5 |
Mig-Video Communication Server - 5 Traversal Calls |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| MIG-LIC-VCSE-50 |
Mig-Video Communication Server - 50 Traversal Calls |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
| LIC-EXP-10RMS-CPW= |
Expressway RMS License for CUWP Only |
See Product Migration Options section for details. |
Expressway FLEX subscription licenses |
- |
Customers should migrate from Expressway Series (Perpetual) to Expressway in Cisco Collaboration Flex Plan 3.0. The ordering guide for Flex Plan 3.0 can be found at the link below: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/partners/tools/collaboration-ordering-guides.html.
For more information about the Cisco End-of-Life Policy, go to: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_end-of-life_policy.html.
For more information about the Cisco Product Warranties, go to: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/prod_warranties_listing.html.
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