EoS/EoL for the Cisco LC-OC12-DS3 Line Card [Cisco 12000 Series Routers]

Product Bulletin, No. 2372

End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco LC-OC12-DS3(=)

Cisco Systems^® announces the end of life of the Cisco^® LC-OC12-DS3(=). The last day to order the Cisco is December 30, 2004. Customers will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until December 30, 2009. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the Cisco LC-OC12-DS3(=).

Customers are encouraged to migrate to the 4CHOC12/DS3-I-SCB(=), which is based on the ISE Architecture and offers all the features and functions provided by the LC-OC12-DS3(=), but at the same time provides all the enhanced benefits and functions of the ISE Architecture. The ISE-based linecards provide a superset of the functionality over the LC-OC12-DS3(=), which includes flexible channelization as well as dynamic provisioning. While LC-OC12-DS3(=) is channelized down to DS3, the ISE based line card—4CHOC12/DS3-I-SCB can be channelized to OC3 and/or DS3 and can be configured on a per port basis. The Information about this product can be found at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps167/products_data_sheet09186a0080092077.html

Table 3 provides relevant information for migrating from the Cisco LC-OC12-DS3(=) to the 4CHOC12/DS3-I-SCB(=).

Table 1 End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco LC-OC12-DS3(=)

Milestone	Definition	Date
End-of-life announcement date	The document date of the end of sale and end of life of a product to the general public.	December 10, 2003
End of sale date	The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale.	December 30, 2004
Last shipment date	The last possible date product shipment can be deferred to.	April 1, 2005
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.	December 30, 2007
[Required for Hardware] End of Routine Failure Analysis	The last possible date a routine failure analysis may be performed to determine the cause of product failure or defect.	December 30, 2005
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.	December 30, 2005
End of service contract renewal date	The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product. The extension or renewal period cannot extend beyond the last date of support.	December 30, 2008
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.	December 30, 2009

Table 2 Product Part Numbers Being Affected

End-of-Sales Product Part Number	Product Description
LC-OC12-DS3(=)	1 port Channelized OC-12 with 12 DS3s

Required:

Product Migration Options

The recommended replacement for the Cisco LC-OC12-DS3(=) is the 4CHOC12/DS3-I-SCB(=).

Table 3 Product Comparisons

	Cisco LC-OC12-DS3(=)	Cisco 4CHOC12/DS3-I-SCB(=)
Optics	SONET only	SONET and SDH
Channelization	Channelized to DS3	Channelized to OC3 and/or DS3 (as well as SDH)
Provisioning		Flexible channelization, dynamic provisioning, all ISE Based features running at line rate performance
Part number	LC-OC12-DS3(=)	4CHOC12/DS3-I-SCB(=)

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.]

Additional Information

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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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