Cisco ASR 9000 Series Route Switch Processor 440 (2nd Generation) Migration Option

If you have the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Route Switch Processor 440, please pay attention to the EoS and EoL Announcement for the ASR 9000 Series Route Switch Processor 440.

Cisco announced the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Route Switch Processor 440 (2^nd Generation).

The last day to order the affected product(s) is August 30, 2017.

What are the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Route Switch Processor 440 (2nd Generation) Migration Options? Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco ASR 9000 Route Switch Processor 880.

You can read the table below that tell you the Replacement Product Part Number for Cisco ASR 9000 Series Route Switch Processor 440 (2nd Generation).

The table lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement. For customers with active and paid service and support contracts, support will be available under the terms and conditions of customers' service contract.

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Route Switch Processor 440 (2nd Generation) Migration Option

End-of-Sale Product Part Number	Product Description	Replacement Product Part Number	Replacement Product Description	Additional Information
A9K-9900-RP-SE	ASR 99xx Route Processor 12GB for Service Edge	A99-RP2-SE	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Service Edge	-
A9K-9900-RP-TR	ASR 99xx Route Processor 6GB for Packet Transport	A99-RP2-TR	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Packet Transport	-
A9K-9922-RP-SE	ASR 9922 Route Processor 12GB for Service Edge	A99-RP2-SE	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Service Edge	-
A9K-9922-RP-TR	ASR 9922 Route Processor 6GB for Packet Transport	A99-RP2-TR	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Packet Transport	-
A9K-RSP440-LT	ASR9K RSP 180G/slot upgradeable to 440G/slot 8GB RAM	A9K-RSP880-RL-TR	A9K RSP880 Transport Rate Limit to 440G/Slot Fabric	-
A9K-RSP440-LT=	ASR9K RSP 180G/slot upgradeable to 440G/slot 8GB RAM, spare	A9K-RSP880-RL-TR=	A9K RSP880 Transport Rate Limit to 440G/Slot Fabric	-
A9K-RSP440-SE	ASR9K Route Switch Processor with 440G/slot Fabric and 12GB	A9K-RSP880-RL-SE	A9K RSP880 Service Edge Rate Limit to 440G/Slot Fabric	-
A9K-RSP440-SE=	ASR9K Route Switch Processor with 440G/slot Fabric and 12GB	A9K-RSP880-RL-SE=	A9K RSP880 Service Edge Rate Limit to 440G/Slot Fabric	-
A9K-RSP440-TR	ASR9K Route Switch Processor with 440G/slot Fabric and 6GB	A9K-RSP880-RL-TR	A9K RSP880 Transport Rate Limit to 440G/Slot Fabric	-
A9K-RSP440-TR=	ASR9K Route Switch Processor with 440G/slot Fabric and 6GB	A9K-RSP880-RL-TR=	A9K RSP880 Transport Rate Limit to 440G/Slot Fabric	-
ASR-9900-RP-SE	ASR 99xx Route Processor 12GB for Service Edge	A99-RP2-SE	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Service Edge	-
ASR-9900-RP-SE=	ASR 99xx Route Processor 12GB for Service Edge	A99-RP2-SE=	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Service Edge Spare	-
ASR-9900-RP-TR	ASR 99xx Route Processor 6GB for Packet Transport	A99-RP2-TR	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Packet Transport	-
ASR-9900-RP-TR=	ASR 99xx Route Processor 6GB for Packet Transport	A99-RP2-TR=	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Packet Transport Spare	-
ASR-9922-RP-SE	ASR 9922 Route Processor 12GB for Service Edge	A99-RP2-SE	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Service Edge	-
ASR-9922-RP-SE=	ASR 9922 Route Processor 12GB for Service Edge	A99-RP2-SE=	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Service Edge Spare	-
ASR-9922-RP-TR	ASR 9922 Route Processor 6GB for Packet Transport	A99-RP2-TR	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Packet Transport	-
ASR-9922-RP-TR=	ASR 9922 Route Processor 6GB for Packet Transport	A99-RP2-TR=	ASR 9900 Route Processor 2 for Packet Transport Spare	-
RSP440-SE	Route Switch Processor 440G SE Option for ASR-9904 System	A9K-RSP880-RL-SE	A9K RSP880 Service Edge Rate Limit to 440G/Slot Fabric	-
RSP440-TR	Route Switch Processor 440G TR Option for ASR-9904 System	A9K-RSP880-RL-TR	A9K RSP880 Transport Rate Limit to 440G/Slot Fabric	-

Information about this product can be found at: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/asr9000seriesaggregationservicesrouters/datasheetc78733763.html

Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in the following Table of the EoL bulletin.

End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Route Switch Processor 440 (2^nd Generation)

The Table describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product(s).

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.	August 30, 2016
End-of-Sale Date: HW	The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale after this date.	August 30, 2017
Last Ship Date: HW	The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its contract manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.	November 29, 2017
End of SW Maintenance Releases Date: HW	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.	August 30, 2018
End of Routine Failure Analysis Date: HW	The last-possible date a routine failure analysis may be performed to determine the cause of hardware product failure or defect.	August 30, 2018
End of New Service Attachment Date: HW	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.	August 30, 2018
End of Service Contract Renewal Date: HW	The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.	November 28, 2021
Last Date of Support: HW	The last date to receive applicable service and support for the product as entitled by active service contracts or by warranty terms and conditions. After this date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete.	August 31, 2022

HW = Hardware    OS SW = Operating System Software  App. SW = Application Software

Please Note-“LAST SUPPORTED RELEASE FOR RSP440 and RSP440-LT is 6.4.1”

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	Cisco	HPE Aruba	Huawei	Juniper
Innovations
Investment protection with custom silicon Unique and powerful UADP ASIC offers unmatched features and functionality.	✔ Cisco custom silicon helps ensure enterprise feature robustness, platform longevity, and investment protection.	Limited Multiple vendor acquisition history makes the product lines inconsistent, with short life spans. A majority of switching platforms are merchant silicon-based with limited flexibility.	Limited Huawei ENP lags in terms of capability when compared with the Cisco UADP. Huawei is missing high-speed stacking interface, lacks performance and flexibility, lacks packet-processing flexibility, and is short on full visibility of data flows.	✘ Switching platforms are based on merchant silicon, limiting flexibility and functionality.
Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Cisco DNA provides a superior customer experience and simplifies business operations.	✔ Cisco DNA is an open and extensible software-based architecture that accelerates and optimizes enterprise network operations.	✘	✘	✘
Multigigabit technology Give customers switches for 802.11ac and beyond.	✔ Cisco Catalyst Multigigabit Technology can prepare customers’ access networks for future innovations by delivering speeds of 1G, 2.5G, and 5G on existing Category 5e/6 cables.	Limited HPE offers equivalent multigigabit technology, with SmartRate limited to a couple of product platforms and a limited number of ports.	Limited Huawei S5720-14X-PWH-SI-AC claims multigigabit speeds, but only up to 2.5G.	✘
Application Visibility and Control (AVC) Recognize and service more than 1400 applications. Differentiate between nonencrypted and encrypted apps to help ensure appropriate treatment of business-critical traffic.	✔  Cisco access switches can inspect traffic and application flows to enforce network access policy and protect against attacks with Cisco Flexible NetFlow, DNS-AS, NBAR, and Cisco Prime Infrastructure.	Limited HPE switching platforms are limited to simple, basic traffic classifications and policy enforcement with ACL. These platforms are also limited by their lack of memory capacity in access switching.	Limited  Limited SLA monitoring with Huawei iPCA.	✘
Converged infrastructure: Consistent automation across WAN, WLAN, and wired networks. Deploy a new branch online, or roll out a new application policy within minutes using a single pane of control and true network convergence.	✔ Use Cisco Prime Infrastructure to centrally provision WAN path selection with IWAN and security, encryption, app visibility, and control with APIC-EM and Cisco TrustSec.	Limited HPE uses SDN controllers and AirWave for automated deployment of infrastructure of Aruba switches only. For a single pane of glass, HPE uses IMC for the original HPE switches but does not support AirWave.	Limited Huawei’s SVF does not provide true network convergence.	✘
Monitoring by endpoint type Monitor and classify behaviors of devices and data that are critical to identifying problems.	✔ Cisco can use analytics to monitor behavior with Stealthwatch and NetFlow, and classify traffic on the edge and inside the network with TrustSec.	Limited Aruba offers very limited functionality. Tunneled Node is offered as a catch-all solution that cannot scale.	Limited  iPCA is offered as an option but provides limited platform support and visibility.	✘
Support new capabilities without major upgrades Avoid major upgrades by leveraging existing access points, controllers, and switches without performance impact.	✔ Through the integration of custom ASICs, UADP, and access point modularity, Cisco offers support for new innovations.	Limited No support for modular APs. Switching platforms use a custom ASIC with limited extensibility.	✘ No current support for modular APs or switches.	No wireless platforms, and switching platforms are ​based on merchant silicon. ✘
Agility
Improve experience for Apple users Promote a better user experience for business-relevant applications on all Apple devices.	✔ Cisco and Apple have joined efforts to provide better user experiences for Apple device users connected to a Cisco network.	Limited Functionality can only be supported through manual QoS prioritization and Wi-Fi standards.	Limited Functionality can be supported only through manual QoS prioritization	✘
High availability Support redundancy for business resiliency.	✔ Cisco switches offer innovative ISSU features and hot-standby N+1 redundancy in stacks.​	✘	Limited Huawei claims ISSU on some of its switches.	✘
Consistent application performance across the network Help ensure voice and video experience across a network automatically, without IT intervention.	✔ Through best practices, the EasyQoS application provides customers with a simplified method of delivering end-to-end QoS.	✘	✘	✘
Detect and set features to new devices When IP phones, cameras, access points, or other devices connect, configurations such as QoS, VLAN, and security are automatically applied.	✔ Through Cisco Auto Smartports, devices are dynamically detected and ports configured based on the device type detected on the port.	Limited HPE can detect and set characteristics on an AP attaching to an HPE switch, but cannot detect other types of devices.	✘	✘
Power resiliency for IoT and other devices Get an always-on environment for IoT and other devices that are powered via PoE, even when the switch reboots.	✔ Cisco offers Persistent PoE and Fast PoE and Universal PoEwhile providing multiple-level redundancy through StackPower.	Limited HPE offers basic Poe/PoE+ (30W) support, and supplies 1:1 power redundancy via dual power supplies supported in a limited number of switches.	Limited Huawei supports PoE and PoE+ PoH (95W) on a single S5700 platform. Power redundancy is 1:1 PoH (power over HDMI) (95W) on a single S5700 platform.	✘
Security
Integrated security Be consistently ahead of the game to secure the network.	✔  Cisco switches offer advanced security features like Cisco TrustSec, Network as a Service (NaaS), Network as an Enforcer (NaaE), mDNS gateway, and 256-bit MACsec.	✘	✘	✘
Threat detection Rapidly eliminate threats across the entire network (wired and wireless) from a single place.	✔ Eliminate threats across the network with Cisco's effective security solutions. Products include Stealthwatch, TrustSec, Identity Services Engine, and Rapid Threat Containment.	Limited  HPE offers sFlow, ClearPass, and Tunneled Node to support security across wired and wireless.	✘	✘
Simplified user, device, and group segmentation Allows guest or contractor access to a specific resource on your network. Allows users and devices to easily move between branches and campuses on both WLAN and wired networks.	✔  Apply context-based policy across the entire network in a click using Identity Services Engine and TrustSec.	Limited Aruba Tunneled Node is offered as a catch-all solution but cannot scale.	✘	✘

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