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Product Bulletin, No.1815
End-of-Sale Announcement for the First-Generation Network Analysis Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 6000 Series
Overview
With the availability of the second-generation, high-performance Network Analysis Modules (NAMs) for the Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series (NAM-1 and NAM-2), Cisco Systems announces the End-of-Sale (EOS) of the following NAM products, listed in Table 1.
Table 1 Products Affected
Network Analysis Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 6000 Series
Network Analysis Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 6000 Series, spare
Effective Dates
EOS External Announcement—June 24, 2002
EOS and Orderability—July 27, 2002
Last shipments of WS-X6380-NAM—August 27, 2002
End of support/obsolescence—July 27, 2007
The voice-over-IP (VoIP) and Application Response Time (ART) monitoring licenses will continue to be orderable as spares for the installed base of first-generation NAMs. Table 2 provides these part numbers.
Table 2 Products Not Affected
NAM ART MIB License, spare
NAM VoIP License, spare
Software upgrades will continue to be offered for the installed base of first-generation NAMs via the Software Center download pages at:http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/cat6000-nam
Product Substitution
The first-generation NAM is effectively replaced by NAM-1, which provides higher monitoring performance and is switch-fabric enabled to support both crossbar- and bus-based architectures in the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series. The extra-high-performance NAM-2 is also available to support extended needs of the scalable switching environment. NAM-1 and NAM-2 are supported by the NAM software version 2.2, which comes with the embedded, Web-based Traffic Analyzer, providing full-scale remote monitoring (RMON) and troubleshooting capabilities.
Key features of NAM-1 and NAM-2 (with NAM Software Version 2.2):
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Switch-fabric-enabled, with interfaces to both bus- and crossbar-based architectures in the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
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Ordering Information
Table 3 New Product Ordering Information
Notes
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Platform Requirements
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Technology Migration Plan
Customers interested in migrating to the new, high-performance NAM-1 and NAM-2, can trade in their first-generation NAMs per the policies of the Cisco Technology Migration Plan. For details, please refer to:
http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/pr11/incentive/index.htmlProduct Information
For additional product information, please refer to:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps2706/ps699/index.html
Additional Information
For additional product ordering and availability information or questions, please send e-mail to the CiscoWorks product marketing group at ciscoworks@cisco.com.