Cisco Catalyst X6816 Supplementary Manual
Product End-of-Life Notice
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the
Selected Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Distributed
Forwarding Cards
EOL5755—Amended
Cisco® announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Selected Cisco Catalyst
6500 Series Distributed Forwarding Cards. The last day to order the affected product(s) is
March 30, 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.
Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Select Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Distributed
Forwarding Cards
Milestone Definition Date
End-of-Life
Announcement Date
End-of-Sale Date The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale
Last Ship Date: HW The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its
End of SW Maintenance
Releases Date: HW
End of Routine Failure
Analysis Date: HW
End of New Service
Attachment Date: HW
End of Service Contract
Renewal Date: HW
Last Date of Support:
HW
The date the document that announces the end of sale and end of life
of a product is distributed to the general public.
mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale after this date.
contract manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.
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.
The last-possible date a routine failure analysis may be performed to
determine the cause of product failure or defect.
For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-andsupport contract, this is the last date to order a new service-andsupport contract or add the equipment and/or software to an existing
service-and-support contract.
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product. June 25, 2012
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.
September 30, 2007
March 30, 2008
June 28, 2008
March 30, 2009
March 30, 2009
March 30, 2009
March 29, 2013
HW = Hardware OS SW = Operating System Software App. SW = Application Software
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Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
Product End-of-Life Notice
End-of-Sale Product
Part Number
WS-F6K-DFC Dist Fwd Card for 65xx, 6816
WS-F6K-DFC3A Dist Fwd Card-3A for 65xx, 6816
WS-F6K-DFC3A= Dist Fwd Card-3A for 65xx, 6816
WS-F6K-DFC3B Catalyst 6500 Dist Fwd Card-3B
WS-F6K-DFC3B= Catalyst 6500 Dist Fwd Card-3B
WS-F6K-DFC3BXL Catalyst 6500 Dist Fwd Card-
WS-F6K-DFC3BXL= Catalyst 6500 Dist Fwd Card-
WS-F6K-DFC= Dist Fwd Card for 65xx, 6816
Product Description Replacement Product Part
Modules used with SUP2
Modules used with SUP720
Modules used with SUP720
for 65xx, 6816 modules
for 65xx, 6816 modules
3BXL for 65xx, 6816 modules
3BXL for 65xx, 6816 modules
Modules used with SUP2
Number
See the Product Migration Options section below for detailed
information on replacing this product.
See the Product Migration Options section below for detailed
information on replacing this product.
See the Product Migration Options section below for detailed
information on replacing this product.
See the Product Migration Options section below for detailed
information on replacing this product.
See the Product Migration Options section below for detailed
information on replacing this product.
See the Product Migration Options section below for detailed
information on replacing this product.
See the Product Migration Options section below for detailed
information on replacing this product.
See the Product Migration Options section below for detailed
information on replacing this product.
Replacement Product
Description
Note: WS-F6700-DFC3B/3BXL and WS-F6700-DFC3C/3CXL are used only on CEF720 or WS67xx series line cards
WS-F6K-DFC3A(=),WS-F6K-DFC3B(=),WS-F6K-DFC3BXL(=) are supported till 12.2(33)SXH
release. WS-F6K-DFC(=) is supported till 12. 2(18)SXF.
Product Migration Options
Line cards associated with product WS-F6K-DFC3x are WS-6548-RJ-45, WS-6548-RJ-21,WSX6516-GE-TX,WS-X6516A-GBIC,and WS-X6816-GBIC are reaching their end-of-sale dates. All
of these line cards with the exception of WS-X6516A-GBIC are End-of-Sale. Please visit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/prod_eol_notice0900aecd8069af87.html
for more details.
Table 3. Options for customers with WS-X6516A-GBIC
Scenarios for WS-X6516A-GBIC customers Effect/Migration options due to WS-F6k-DFC3x EoS
Existing customers an dnew deployments with WSX6516A-GBIC in a Sup32 system
Existing customers with WS-X6516A-GBIC alone
(without WS-F6K-DFC3x daughter card) in a sup720
system
Existing customers with WS-X6516A-GBIC and WSF6K-DFC3x daughter card in a sup720 system
New deployments considering WS-X6516A-GBIC and
WS-F6K-DFC3x in a sup720 system
For cards with WS-F6K-DFC3X daughter card and announced End of Sale, please see below for
replacement options (source is line card EoS announcement at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/prod_end-oflife_notice0900aecd8069af87.html):
No change
No change
The DFC will be supported as per the timeline provided above. After
this timeline, Cisco encourages customers to move towards WSX6724-SFP with WS-F6700-DFC3x daughter card
Cisco encourages customers to move towards WS-X6724-SFP with
WS-F6700-DFC3x daughter card
Customers are encouraged to migrate to Cisco 6700 Series line cards with DFC3B/DFC3C and
DFC3BXL/DFC3CXL versions of Catalyst 6500 Series Distributed Forwarding Cards. Information
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