I has more to do with how long the product family as been discontinued,
the availability of replacement components and the size of the installed
base than simply the age of the equipment.
If you check the product bulletins on the Cisco website you'll find end
of sales and end of service bulletins, though there's not neccessarily
a one-for-one mapping between that and smartnet availability.
George
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 10:32:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: Hagen Amen <hagena@multcolib.org>
> Subject: Re: Smartnet and used equipment
>
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
>
> > What happen though is SmartNet not covering old versions of hardware/software.
>
> How old are we talking here? I've go a bunch of 2501's, a 4000M, 3
> 4700M's, and some original catalyst 2900 swithes under Smartnet, along
> with everything else. It's never been a problem, I just renewed in July.
> Some of those 2501's are almost 7 years old.
>
> --
> Hagen Amen, Network Analyst
> http://www.multcolib.org/
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