OT- EoS dates for Cisco

From: Ram Shummoogum (rshummoo@ca.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2006 - 12:19:06 ART


There is currently a discussion/confusion about EOS dates.

I picked Cat2950 as an example: last date of support is December 30, 2011.
The announcement was made in April 2006.

 The "End of Software Maintenance Release Date" is December 31, 2007 and
yet I can purchase a software contract at the latest December 31, 2007 .
Why is that?

Is it for Security vulnerabilities? Otherwise there is something wrong
with the logic here.

I find it ridiculous to replace all my switches 1.5 year after an
announcement.

Your feedback is appreciated.

Thanks,



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