Cisco Systems® announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco® Guard XT 5650-A DDoS Mitigration Appliance and Traffic Anomaly Detector XT 5600-A appliances. The last day to order the affected products is May 15, 2006. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until April 14, 2011.
Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product.
Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement. Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco Guard XT 5650-B and Traffic Anomaly Detector XT 5600-B appliances, which are hardware refreshes of the affected products and coexist with previously deployed Cisco Guard XT 5650-A and Detector XT 5600-A appliances.
Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco Guard XT 5650-A and Traffic Anomaly Detector XT 5600-A Appliances
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.
October 14, 2005
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.
May 15, 2006
Last Shipment Date
The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its contract manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.
May 31, 2006
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.
April 14, 2007
End of Routine Failure Analysis Date
The last-possible date a routine failure analysis may be performed to determine the cause of product failure or defect.
April 14, 2007
End of New Service Attachment Date
For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-and-support contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract or add the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support contract.
April 14, 2007
End of Service Contract Renewal Date
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.
October 14, 2010
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.
April 14, 2011
Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
End-of-Sale Product Part Number
Product Description
Replacement Product Part Number
Replacement Product Description
ADXT-5600-GET-A-K9
Cisco Traffic Anomaly Detector XT 5600 with 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports, dual AC power, RAID
ADXT-5600-MMF-B-K9
Cisco Traffic Anomaly Detector XT 5600 with 1000BASE-SX multimode fiber-optic ports with LC connectors, dual AC power, RAID
ADXT-5600-MMF-A-K9
Cisco Traffic Anomaly Detector XT 5600 with 1000BASE-SX multimode fiber-optic ports with LC connectors, dual AC power, RAID
ADXT-5600-MMF-B-K9
Cisco Traffic Anomaly Detector XT 5600 with 1000BASE-SX multimode fiber-optic ports with LC connectors, dual AC power, RAID
AGXT-5650-GET-A-K9
Cisco Guard XT 5650 with 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports, dual AC power, RAID
AGXT-5650-MMF-B-K9
Cisco Guard XT 5650 with 1000BASE-SX multimode fiber-optic ports with LC connectors, dual AC power, RAID
AGXT-5650-MMF-A-K9
Cisco Guard XT 5650 with 1000BASE-SX multimode fiber-optic ports with LC connectors, dual AC power, RAID
AGXT-5650-MMF-B-K9
Cisco Guard XT 5650 with 1000BASE-SX multimode fiber-optic ports with LC connectors, dual AC power, RAID
PRODUCT MIGRATION OPTIONS
Customers are encouraged to migrate to the replacement products (Table 2), which will be available in June 2006. In addition to the replacement appliances, customers can also choose the Guard and Traffic Anomaly Detector service modules for the Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series as replacements.
WS-SVC-ADM-1-K9
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Traffic Anomaly Detector Service Module
