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ONS 15454 TCC+ Card Price Change Announcement

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Product Bulletin, No. 2392

TCC+ Processor Card End-of-Life Plan

TCC2 Processor Card


Product Bulletin, No. 2392


Price Increase for Timing, Communications, and
Control Plus (TCC+) Card for Cisco ONS 15454 MSPP

Effective April 15, 2004, the list price of the Cisco® ONS 15454 Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP) Timing, Communications, and Control Plus (TCC+) card will increase by 33 percent (compared to the January 15, 2004 list price). Because the end-of-sale date for the TCC+ card is October 1, 2004, customers are encouraged to purchase the new Cisco ONS 15454 TCC2 card, which has an advanced feature set and will support future features and functionality of the Cisco ONS 15454. Review Table 2 to compare features of the two processor cards. Table 1 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement.

Table 1  Product Part Numbers Affected by Price Change

Product ID
Price Change

15454-TCC+

33% increase to the 1/15/2004 list price

15454-TCC+=

33% increase to the 1/15/2004 list price


TCC+ Processor Card End-of-Life Plan

Cisco Systems® announced the TCC+ card's end-of-life plan in a previously released product bulletin. The end-of-sale date is October 1, 2004. Additional dates associated with the TCC+ card's end-of-life plan can be found at:

TCC+ Card End-of-Life Product Bulletin

http://cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/optical/ps2006/prod_eol_notices_list.html

TCC2 Processor Card

The TCC2 processor card was introduced with an advanced feature set, as outlined in Table 2, with an equivalent list price as the TCC+ card. Unlike the TCC+ card's list price, the TCC2 card's list price is not affected by this announcement, and will not change on April 15, 2004.

Table 2  Processor Product Comparisons 

Feature
Cisco TCC2 Processor Card
Cisco TCC+ Processor Card (Pending End-of-Life)

DCC terminations

84 (32 in R4.0, 68 in R4.6)

10

Software support

Beginning R4.0.0

Through R4.1.x

Memory—FLASH and RAM

256 MB

64 MB

Processor

400 MHz

40 MHz

Software download time (via DCN)

~6 minutes

~21 minutes

Node voltage monitoring

Yes

No

Manual lamp test

Yes

No

Time and date clock recovery

Yes

No

Part number

15454-TCC2

15454-TCC+