Cisco® announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco Service Selection Gateway (SSG). The last day to order the affected product(s) is May 15, 2009. 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 until the termination date of the contract, even if this date exceeds the Last Date of Support shown in Table 1.
Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco Service Selection Gateway (SSG)
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.
November 14, 2008
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.
May 15, 2009
Last Ship Date
Feature
The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its contract manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.
August 13, 2009
End of SW Maintenance Releases Date
Feature
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.
May 15, 2010
End of New Service Attachment Date
Feature
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.
May 15, 2010
Last Date of Support
Feature
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.
May 14, 2012
HW = Hardware OS SW = Operating System Software App. SW = Application Software
This end-of-life announcement covers support for Cisco Service Selection Gateway across all platforms, including the Cisco C1800, C2800, C3800, and C7200 Series Routers and C7301 Router. SSG previously announced its end-of-life on the C10000, C6400, and Multiprocessor WAN Application Module platforms. The end-of-life schedule for the web portal/policy server used by SSG, the Subscriber Edge Services Manager, has been announced as well. For more information, go to: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/netmgtsw/ps6504/ps4889/prod_end-of-life_notice0900aecd8067f15e.html. The Cisco Service Selection Gateway will no longer be available in any Cisco IOS Software release after 12.4(24)T, though it will be maintained on Cisco IOS12.4(22)T and Cisco IOS12.4(24)T until the end-of-software-maintenance timelines for these releases are reached.
Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
End-of-Sale Product Part Number
Product Description
Replacement Product Part Number
Replacement Product Description
FR-BUS-SSG10
7301/7200 SSG 10K Provisioned subscriber
FR-ISG72
ISG Feature License for 7200
FR-BUS-SSG10=
7301/7200 SSG 10K Provisioned subscriber
FR-ISG72
ISG Feature License for 7200
FR-BUS-SSG1500
Cisco 7200/7301 SSG Roaming License for 1500 users
See Product Migration Options section for details.
ISG
FR-BUS-SSG1500=
Cisco 7200/7301 SSG Roaming License for 1500 users
See Product Migration Options section for details.
ISG
FR-BUS-SSG30
7301/7200 SSG license for 30K subscribers
See Product Migration Options section for details.
ISG
FR-BUS-SSG30=
7301/7200 SSG license for 30K subscribers
See Product Migration Options section for details.
ISG
FR-BUS-SSG50
7200/7301 SSG license for 50K subscribers
See Product Migration Options section for details.
ISG
FR-BUS-SSG50=
7200/7301 SSG license for 50K subscribers
See Product Migration Options section for details.
ISG
Product Migration Options
Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco Intelligent Services Gateway (ISG), which represents the latest advancements in subscriber management. Information about this product can be found at: http://www.cisco.com/go/isg. Cisco ISG is the next-generation standards-based Cisco implementation of dynamic subscriber policy control and IP session management. Cisco ISG supports a wide range of deployment scenarios, including broadband, DSL, wholesale, public wireless LANs, ServiceMesh and WiMAX. Both PPP sessions and IP-over-Ethernet sessions are fully supported with higher scalability and more flexible configuration than were possible with Cisco SSG. Please note that Cisco ISG is licensed per box only on the Cisco C7200 Series Routers and C7301 Router. Any existing SSG site licenses will continue to be honored even with a migration to Cisco ISG, but no new site licenses will be issued for Cisco ISG. Please use the per-platform license instead. Also note that there is no special Cisco SSG or ISG license required for the Cisco C1800, C2800, or C3800 Series Routers, as the license cost is included in the feature set purchase.
Table 3. Product Comparisons
Feature
Cisco Service Selection Gateway (SSG)
Intelligent Services Gateway (ISG)
Northbound Policy Control Interface(s)
Proprietary SESM interface
RFC3576 Radius Change of Authorization (CoA) Interface, Open XML-based SGI Interface, Proprietary SESM Interface
