Products reach the end of their Product Life Cycle for a number of reasons. These reasons may be due to market demands, technology innovation and development driving changes in the product, or the products simply mature over time and are replaced by functionally richer technology. While this is an established part of the overall product life cycle, Cisco Systems recognizes that end-of-life milestones often prompt companies to review the way in which such end-of-sale and end-of-life milestones impact the Cisco products in their networks. With that in mind, we have set out below Cisco's end-of-life policy to help customers better manage their end-of-life transition and to understand the role that Cisco can play in helping to migrate to alternative Cisco platforms and technology: The general policy guidelines here
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Nexus 3000/9000 Releases 9.2(x)
The last day to order the affected product(s) is April 10, 2021
More information can be found here.
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco IOS XE 17.2.x
The last day to order the affected product(s) is April 13, 2021
More information can be found here.
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco IOS XE 16.12.x
The last day to order the affected product(s) is February 17, 2021
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ASR1013 routers
The last day to order the affected product(s) is October 6, 2021
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Catalyst 2960C
The last day to order the affected product(s) is December 31, 2020
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for Perpetual Licensing for Cisco Expressway Series
The last day to order the affected product(s) is December January 23, 2021