Official farewell to the Cisco Cius

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September 27th 2012

Official farewell to the Cisco Cius

After annoucing it a few months ago, Cisco have today officially “killed” the Cius tablet, acknowledging that they haven’t been able to scratch, never mind dent the iPad’s prevelence in the business marketplace. It was always going to be an uphill task for Cisco to displace the iPad even in loyal Cisco enterprise customers, however a combination of an extremely high price point, late delivery, buggy software and the fact that it’s “not Apple” have resulted in today’s final death knell.

So millions of dollars have been burnt with little to show for it. Cisco is now focusing on pushing it’s Jabber collaboration apps onto both the iPad and Android platforms.

The offical EoS article is available here:

Not much comfort for the few (and we mean few) enterprises that splashed out on it…

Barry Hesk
Intrinsic Network Solutions

#in EoS of Cisco 6500 Supervisor Engine Modules Sup32 + Sup720

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2nd February 2012

EoS of Cisco 6500 Supervisor Engine Modules Sup32 + Sup720

Hard on the heels of yesterday’s announcements of new products from Cisco, a slew of end of sale notices has also just followed.

Of particular note is the EoS of the Supervisor 32, and non 10 Gigabit versions of the Supervisor 720 – both of these are the main controller modules for the 6500 chassis.

Replacements are somewhat interesting.

For the Sup32, the recommended replacement is either the 10 Gig version of the Sup 720, or the new Sup 2T.
For the Sup 720, the recommended replacement is the same.

So for customers who had been installing the Sup32 the Cisco recommended replacement module at least doubles in price to RRP £17k EACH or higher in some configurations.

Obviously the age of austerity that we are all living in doesn’t apply to Cisco customers,or at least Cisco don’t think so.

The full EoS notices are here and here

Barry Hesk

Cisco EoS Announcements

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Aug 2011

In recent weeks, Cisco Systems have announced a slew of End of Sale (EoS) notices including the entire Unity voicemail line (as predicated by Intrinsic in an earlier post)

Unity is now officially EoS with Unity Connection being the recommended replacement product. Cisco Speech Connect, which provides Speech Recognition services to voicemail deployments is also EoS as a standalone product, as it has now been integrated into Unity Connection 8.5.

Also subject to EoS are the Cisco 7921 wireless handset (replaced with the more expensive 7925 version) and a couple of Gigabit models of the 2960 switch which are replaced with 2960S versions. Cisco 7911 handsets are also now EoS with the recommended replacement being the 6921.

Barry Hesk