EOL and EOS Announcement for Cisco 2960 Series Switches

According to cisco.com, some of the most popular Cisco 2960 series switches are coming to their EOS and EOL, the table 1 and table 2 will tell you the details:

Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product(s).

Table 2 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.

Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches

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.	October 31, 2013
End-of-Sale Date	The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale after this date.	October 31, 2014
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.	January 29, 2015
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.	October 31, 2015
End of Vulnerability/Security Support: HW	The last date that Cisco Engineering may release a planned maintenance release or scheduled software remedy for a security vulnerability issue.	October 30, 2017
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.	October 31, 2015
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.	October 31, 2015
End of Service Contract Renewal Date: HW	The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.	January 29, 2019
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.	October 31, 2019

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

Table 2. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement

End-of-Sale Product Part Number	Product Description	Replacement Product Part Number	Replacement Product Description	Additional Information
WS-C2960-24-S	Catalyst 2960 24 10/100 LAN Lite Image	WS-C2960+24TC-S	Catalyst 2960 Plus 24 10/100 + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite	-
WS-C2960-24LC-S	Catalyst 2960 24 10/100 (8 PoE) + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite Image	WS-C2960+24LC-S	Catalyst 2960 Plus 24 10/100 (8 PoE) + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite	-
WS-C2960-24LT-L	Catalyst 2960 24 10/100 (8 PoE)+ 2 1000BT LAN Base Image	WS-C2960+24LC-L	Catalyst 2960 Plus 24 10/100 (8 PoE) + 2 T/SFP LAN Base	-
WS-C2960-24PC-L	Catalyst 2960 24 10/100 PoE + 2 T/SFP LAN Base Image	WS-C2960+24PC-L	Catalyst 2960 Plus 24 10/100 PoE + 2 T/SFP LAN Base	-
WS-C2960-24PC-S	Catalyst 2960 24 10/100 PoE + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite Image	WS-C2960+24PC-S	Catalyst 2960 Plus 24 10/100 PoE + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite	-
WS-C2960-24TC-L	Catalyst 2960 24 10/100 + 2T/SFP LAN Base Image	WS-C2960+24TC-L	Catalyst 2960 Plus 24 10/100 + 2T/SFP LAN Base	-
WS-C2960-24TC-S	Catalyst 2960 24 10/100 + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite Image	WS-C2960+24TC-S	Catalyst 2960 Plus 24 10/100 + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite	-
WS-C2960-24TT-L	Catalyst 2960 24 10/100 + 2 1000BT LAN Base Image	WS-C2960+24TC-L	Catalyst 2960 Plus 24 10/100 + 2T/SFP LAN Base	-
WS-C2960-48PST-L	Catalyst 2960 48 10/100 PoE + 2 1000BT +2 SFP LAN Base Image	WS-C2960+48PST-L	Catalyst 2960 Plus 48 10/100 PoE + 2 1000BT +2 SFP LAN Base	-
WS-C2960-48PST-S	Catalyst 2960 48 10/100 PoE + 2 1000BT +2 SFP LAN Lite Image	WS-C2960+48PST-S	Catalyst 2960 Plus 48 10/100 PoE + 2 1000BT +2 SFP LAN Lite	-
WS-C2960-48TC-L	Catalyst 2960 48 10/100 + 2 T/SFP LAN Base Image	WS-C2960+48TC-L	Catalyst 2960 Plus 48 10/100 + 2 T/SFP LAN Base	-
WS-C2960-48TC-S	Catalyst 2960 48 10/100 + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite Image	WS-C2960+48TC-S	Catalyst 2960 Plus 48 10/100 + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite	-
WS-C2960-48TT-L	Catalyst 2960 48 10/100 + 2 1000BT LAN Base Image	WS-C2960+48TC-L	Catalyst 2960 Plus 48 10/100 + 2 T/SFP LAN Base	-
WS-C2960-48TT-S	Catalyst 2960 48 10/100 + 2 1000BT LAN Lite Image	WS-C2960+48TC-S	Catalyst 2960 Plus 48 10/100 + 2 T/SFP LAN Lite	-

It is referred from: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-6500-series-switches/eos-eol-notice-c51-730121.html

Copy Configuration of Cisco Switch to Another, How to do?

I have to deploy one more Cisco Catalyst 2960 to our network... what i wanted to do is just copy the config file of another 2960- which is already on the network, and just change the ip address after that. My problem is I forgot how to do it using ftp.. I have filezilla client and server, as well as tera term. I had used filezilla once to download config from one of our switch, but i forgot the steps. And I'm confuse which one I will use to download the config, filezilla client or file zilla server?... Or can I just copy and paste the output of the config from my teraterm?

The solution:

1 You can copy the config from the first switch to the FTP server and then from the FTP server to the second switch. Be sure the second switch isn't connected to the network, but instead with a direct connection to the FTP server. Otherwise, you will have network problems with both switches having the same IP address.

2 FTP / TFTP or copy / paste using Notepad and PuTTY / Tera Term etc is the easiest way. Saving to a thumb drive just adds an extra two steps that aren't required. And none of the 2900 series switches have USB ports anyway... well not for that anyway. New 2960's such as WS-C2960S-24TS-L have mini-USB ports for the new USB console cables.

3 I have a trick to offer that will help with editing your file in the copy/paste route.

Once in global config mode, type:

term length 0

show run

What that does is prints the entire config from top to bottom, without the "press enter to continue" messages in the middle. Once it's done, you put it back with:

term length 24

If you don't put it back, scrolling is permanently off. Hope that's useful.