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Cisco® announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco MDS 9000 14/2-Port Multiprotocol Services Module. The last day to order the affected product(s) is October 9, 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.
Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 18/4-Port Multiservice Module. This module delivers state-of-the-art multiprotocol and distributed multiservice convergence, offering high-performance SAN extension and disaster-recovery solutions, intelligent fabric services such as Cisco Storage Media Encryption, and cost-effective multiprotocol connectivity.
Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco MDS 9000 14/2-Port Multiprotocol Services Module
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 to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 18/4-Port Multiservice Module. Information about this product can be found at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps8425/index.html.
Table 3. Product Comparisons
Customers may purchase the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 18/4-Port Multiservice Module from EMC Corporation, IBM Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, Hewlett Packard, Xiotech, Sun, Network Appliance, Dell, NEC, Fujitsu all of whom are designated Original Storage Manufacturer (OSM) or Solutions Technology Integrator (STI) partners, or from any of these companies' resellers. Cisco does not offer trade-in credits or a trade-in program.
For More Information
For more information about the Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module, visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps8425/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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