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This Product Bulletin serves as formal notification that Cisco IOS Software Release 10.0 will reach its End of Sales and End of Maintenance milestones on the following dates:
| Milestone | Effective Date | Impact |
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| Release 10.0 End of Sales | 04/08/96 | No longer orderable through Customer Service or Manufacturing |
| Release 10.0 End of Engineering : | 06/03/96 | No longer receiving any additional maintenance releases |
| Release 10.0(14) --the final 10.0 maintenance release | 05/20/96 | Scheduled for availability via electronic download from CCO |
After this milestone date, the software release may no longer be ordered. Releases which reach this milestone are still available through FSO and CCO for customers under maintenance contract or for Customer Service Engineering (CSE) support until they reach the "End of Life" milestone.
The milestone date after which no scheduled maintenance releases will be produced for the major release. Releases which reach this milestone are still available through FSO and CCO for customers under maintenance contract or for CSE support until they reach the "End of Life" milestone.
After this milestone date, a minimum of one year following End of Engineering, the software release is no longer supported by CSE and is removed from CCO.
Moving Cisco IOS Software Release 10.0 through these milestones serves several purposes:
1. To simplify the task of selecting and ordering software for customers and account managers by reducing the number of releases concurrently available,
2. To encourage customers to operate their routers with more current Cisco IOS offerings in the 10.x and 11.x families,
3. To help focus our development resources on recent releases in order to continue delivering timely, high-quality software releases, and
4. To improve software support by reducing the number of versions currently available.
This news will have the greatest impact on customers who have settled upon 10.0 maintenance releases as their "standard" router network software. Important issues to note follow:
1. Customer Engineering (CE) will still answer technical questions regarding Cisco IOS Software Release 10.0.
2. To utilize an obsolete release on hardware platforms ordered in the future, customers may maintain the software on a TFTP server at their site and utilize netboot procedures. In most instances, this should not be a major issue since most customers likely keep software backups at their site in order to have a quick retrieval mechanism in case of emergency.
Nonetheless, please explicitly discuss this issue with your customers utilizing older software releases and ensure that they have the software on site.
Any questions about this Product Bulletin may be directed to Kevin Delgadillo at (408) 526-7334 or delgadil@cisco.com.
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Posted: Fri Jun 30 23:16:54 PDT 2000
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