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Cisco announces the end-of-life dates for the Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), Network Element Drivers (NED) and Core Function Packs (CFP) versions listed below. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of this bulletin. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product(s).
Table 1. Cisco NSO, NED, and CFP End-of-Life milestones for the affected products and versions
| Milestone |
Definition |
Timing |
| End-of-Life (EoL) Announcement Date |
The date of this announcement |
October 25, 2020 |
| End of SW Maintenance (EoSM) Release 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. Note: After this date, Cisco Engineering will only provide fixes for Security Vulnerabilities as per the EoVS milestone timeframe. |
April 25, 2022 |
| 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. |
April 30, 2024 |
Affected products and versions
Tables 2 and 3 lists the affected Core Function Pack (CFP) and Network Element Driver (NED) products and versions.
Customers are encouraged to migrate to the most recent releases when they become available. NSO Customers with an active Cisco NSO Support contract are eligible to download the latest releases from Cisco Software Download
Table 2. Cisco NSO CFP affected products and versions
| Product |
Versions |
| NSO NFVO CFP |
4.3.x and earlier |
| SDWAN CFP |
2.0.x and earlier |
| VBranch CFP |
1.9.x and earlier |
Table 3. Cisco NSO NED affected products and versions
| Product |
Versions |
| ALU SR |
8.10.x and earlier |
| Arista DCS |
5.16.x and earlier |
| Casa CCAP |
1.0.x and earlier |
| Checkpoint GaiaOS REST |
1.8.x and earlier |
| Ciena ACOS |
6.1.x and earlier |
| Cisco Aireos |
3.3.x and earlier |
| Cisco APIC-DC |
3.8.x and earlier |
| Cisco ASA |
6.11.x and earlier |
| Cisco IOS |
6.65.x and earlier |
| Cisco IOS XR |
7.29.x and earlier |
| Cisco NX |
5.19.x and earlier |
| Cisco StarOS |
5.33.x and earlier |
| F5 BigIP |
3.15.x and earlier |
| Huawei VRP |
6.12.x and earlier |
| Huawei iManager TL1 |
1.5.x and earlier |
| PaloAlto PANOS |
4.6.x and earlier |
| Rad VX |
1.12.x and earlier |
| ZTE XPON |
3.9.x and earlier |
Customers are encouraged to migrate to the most recent releases when they become available. NSO Customers with an active Cisco NSO Support contract are eligible to download the latest releases from Cisco Software Download, located at https://software.cisco.com/download/home.
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Support timelines of previously announced releases
For all NSO support timelines of previous versions: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/network-services-orchestrator/eos-eol-notice-listing.html
For more information about the Cisco NSO product line visit the following page: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/service-provider/solutions-cloud-providers/network-services-orchestrator-solutions.html
or contact your local Cisco account manager.
For information about Cisco service and support programs and benefits, visit: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/services/technical/software-support.html