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Cisco® announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco 7206VXR Router NPE-400 Bundles (Non-Security). The last day to order the affected bundle(s) is February 29, 2008. 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 7206VXR Router NPE-400 Bundles (Non-Security)
HW = Hardware
OS SW = Operating System Software
App. SW = Application Software
Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
Product Migration Options
Customers are encouraged to migrate from the Cisco 7206VXR Router NPE-400 end-of-sale bundles (the C7206VXR/400/GE, C7206VXR/400/2FE, and C7206VXR/VOICE/400) to the higher-performing Cisco 7200VXR solutions with either the NPE-G2 or NPE-G1 Network Processing Engine. The Cisco 7200VXR solutions with NPE-G2 and NPE-G1 also offer more flexibility through support of the port adapter jacket card that makes use of the I/O controller card slot on the 7200VXR chassis and supports high-bandwidth point port adapters including the high-performing encryption module C7200-VSA (with NPE-G2).
The new Cisco 7200 NPE-400 bundle based on the Cisco 7204VXR 4-slot chassis (part number 7204VXR/400) is priced at the same level but offers a higher-performing engine than the end-of-sale NPE-225 bundle (part number 7204VXR/CPE). At this attractive pricing, the 7204VXR/400 bundle is the new entry-level solution in Cisco's midrange routing portfolio.
For information on the Cisco 7200 Series including the whole range of network processing engines (NPE-400, NPE-G1, and NPE-G2), please visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps341/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 the Cisco Certified 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://cisco.com/go/remarketing
For More Information
For more information about the Cisco 7206VXR NPE-G2 and NPE-G1 Network Processing Engine Bundles and Cisco 7204VXR/400 Bundle, visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps341/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.
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