Cisco Systems® announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco® 2600XM Series and the 2691 Multiservice Platform. The last day to order the affected product is March 27, 2007. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until March 25, 2012.
Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected products. Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement.
Cisco encourages customers to migrate to the Cisco integrated services routers which are engineered for secure, wire-speed delivery of concurrent data, voice, video, and wireless services. An integrated systems approach to embedded services speeds application deployment to help reduce operating costs and complexities. Cisco is the first in the industry to embed security and voice services into a single routing system for fast, scalable delivery of mission-critical business applications to organizations of all sizes. For more information about integrated services routers, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/isr.
Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco 2600XM and 2691 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.
27-MAR-2006
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.
27-MAR-2007*
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.
26-JUN-2007*
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.
27-MAR-2010
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.
26-MAR-2008
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.
26-MAR-2008
End of Service Contract Renewal Date
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.
25-JUN-2011
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.
25-MAR-2012
* The CISCO2691-DC-U router and DC power supply spare PWR-2691-DC-U= End of Sales date is May 24, 2006. The last shipment date is June 1, 2006. All other milestone dates for the CISCO2691-DC-U remain the same.
Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
Note: The CISCO2621XM-DC is not covered by this announcement and will continue to be sold for Data Communications Network (DCN) applications.
PRODUCT MIGRATION OPTIONS
Customers who are using the Cisco 2600XM and 2691 routers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco 2800 Series for secure integrated services, or to the Cisco 3800 Series for more concurrent services or support for WAN link speeds up to T3/E3 or ATM OC-3. The Cisco 2800 Series is designed to meet both performance and density requirements for the delivery of highly secure, concurrent services, without compromising performance. The integrated services routing architecture of the Cisco 2800 Series builds on the Cisco 2600XM and 2691 multiservice access routers and adds features that deliver the performance, availability, and reliability required for scaling mission-critical business applications in the most demanding business environments. The Cisco 2800 Series provides significant additional value compared to prior generations of Cisco routers at similar price points by offering up to a fivefold performance improvement, and up to a tenfold increase in security and voice performance. The award-winning Cisco 3800 Series routers help you simplify deployment and management, lower the costs and complexities of your network, and support mission-critical business applications by providing a secure platform with secure T3/E3 wire-speed delivery of data, voice, video, wireless, and application optimization services. The Cisco 3800 Series of routers deliver the performance, availability, and reliability required for scaling mission-critical business applications in the most demanding enterprise environments. For more information about the Cisco 2800 Series, visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5854/index.html. For more information about the Cisco 3800 Series, visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5855/index.html.
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 Cisco's 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 2800 Series, visit http://cisco.com/go/2800 or contact your local Cisco account representative.
