Cisco 7400 Series Routers

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Product Bulletin No. 2176

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Product Bulletin No. 2176

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End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement
          for the Cisco 7400 VPN Bundle

Cisco Systems^® announces the end of life of the Cisco^® 7400 VPN Bundle. The last day to order the Cisco 7400 VPN bundle is November 30, 2003. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the Cisco 7400 VPN bundle. This notice does not affect the Cisco 7400 Series router that will continue to be available. Furthermore, Cisco VPN Acceleration Module (VAM) will continue to be supported as a spare on the Cisco 7400 Series.

As virtual private networks (VPNs) attain mainstream status for WAN connectivity, the demands imposed on network security devices for high performance, feature richness, and investment protection have increased dramatically. The Cisco 7200 Series provides an extensible platform with modular processor and I/O subsystems that allows for simple upgrades in VPN performance and system scalability as demands change. Additional expansion capabilities such as increased density of LAN/WAN interfaces, higher VPN tunnel scalability by supporting larger system memory and stateful failover for VPNs, make the Cisco 7200 Series an excellent choice for high-throughput VPN systems. With these benefits, the Cisco 7200 Series with hardware-based VPN acceleration service adapter is replacing the Cisco 7400 VPN Bundle for headend VPN applications.

Table 1  End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco 7400 VPN Bundle

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.	May 27, 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 after this date.	November 30, 2003
Last shipment date	The last-possible date product shipment can be deferred to.	February 28, 2004
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.	Support provided as part of standard services-and-support contract for Cisco 7200 Series router
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.

The above-mentioned milestones only apply to Cisco 7400 VPN bundle. They do not affect the Cisco 7400 Series router and associated product line. Furthermore, this action does not affect the services contract because it applies to the Cisco 7400 router and not the end-of-sale bundle part number.

Table 2 lists Cisco 7400 VPN Bundle with recommended Cisco 7200 Series Router migration option.

Table 2  Product Part Numbers Affected and Migration Path

End-of-Sale Product		Recommended Product Migration
Part Number	Description	Description
C7400VPN/K9	Cisco 7400 Router, 128 MB of system memory, dual 10/100 Fast Ethernet ports, AC power, IPsec/3DES Cisco IOS® Software, VPN Acceleration Module (VAM)	Cisco 7200 Series Router with NPE-400 processor, I/O controller with dual 10/100 Fast Ethernet ports, AC power, IPsec/Triple-DES Cisco IOS Software, and VPN Acceleration Module. A number of turnkey Cisco 7200 Series VPN bundles are available. Please contact your Cisco representative for additional information.

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

For Cisco 7400 Series information:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/hw/vpndevc/ps3826/ps3827/index.html

For Cisco 7200 Series information:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/hw/routers/ps341/products_data_sheets_list.html

For more information about Cisco products, please contact your Cisco account manager and/or Cisco Channel Partner.

For more information about the Cisco End-of-Life Policy, go to:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/prod_end_of_life.html