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Date for Discontinuing Contract Renewals
Product Bulletin, No. 1936
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement
of the Cisco 4430-B Content Router,
Part Number CR-4430-BCisco Systems announces the end of sale (EOS) end of life (EOL) for the Cisco 4430-B Content Router with part number CR-4430-B. This router will be replaced by the Cisco GSS 4480 Global Site Selector. Table 1 provides the respective part numbers, as well as key EOL milestones.
The first release of the Cisco GSS 4480 Global Site Selector will exclude some features of the Cisco 4430-B Content Router. These features include simulated annealing, Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) support, and the winners database. Customers that need these features should contact Lance McCallum (lmccallu@cisco.com), the Cisco GSS 4480 Product Manager.
Table 1 Affected and Replacement Product and Key Milestones
Content Routers Not Affected
This bulletin does not affect the Cisco 4430 Content Router with part number CR-4430 or Cisco 4450 Content Router. Cisco will continue selling these content routers.
Internal Announcement
The EOL of the Cisco CR-4430-B will be announced in e-mail to the Cisco sales team in September 2002.
End-of-Sales Announcement
The EOL of the Cisco CR-4430-B will be announced in e-mail to the Cisco channel sales representatives and to the field in September 2002. The following will be notified:
emea-all-sales; real-sales-usa; us-sp-sales-all; sales-americas; apac-all-sales; latin-america; cdn-all; ap-cn; channel-cdn; cs-cdn; fsat-cdn; sevt-cn-all.
End-of-Production Date
The end of production occurs in September 2002.
End-of-Support Announcement
The end of support will be announced in September 2005.
Date for Discontinuing Contract Renewals
Contract renewals will be discontinued in September 2007 (EOS [September 2002] + 4.5 years).
Obsolescence
The Cisco 4430 Content Router with part number CR-4430-B will be declared obsolete in March 2008.