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Product Bulletin No. 2250
Cisco IOS
®
Software Feature Packs for the
3700 Series Multiservice Access Routers
This Product Bulletin details changes to the sales of Cisco IOS
®
software spare
parts for Cisco 3700 Series Multiservice Access Routers. It introduces Cisco IOS
Feature Packs as a replacement for the current single-release Cisco IOS Software
spare parts.
Overview
To date and for the Cisco 3700 Series
Multiservice Access Routers, every release
of Cisco IOS software feature sets has been
made available as spare parts. A Cisco IOS
software spare part is shipped as a single
image on CD-ROM or other removable
media. They are purchased by end
customers upgrading from the base feature
set and by Cisco partners staging
configuration of routers.
Moving forward, Cisco will migrate to a
model where a Cisco IOS software spare
part CD-ROM includes all current releases
of the feature set. This CD-ROM will be
referred toas a CiscoIOS Feature Pack and
already exists for a number of feature sets.
Customers only need to specify platform
and feature set when ordering a Cisco IOS
Feature Pack. It will no longer be necessary
to specify a particular release.
The contents of the Cisco IOS Feature
Packs will be updated on a quarterly basis
andwillincludethelatestfourmaintenance
releases from all open mainline release
trains and all releases from the current
T-train.
Note that purchaseof a Cisco IOS software
feature pack includes an entitlement to
deploy any release of the selected feature
set, not only those included on the
CD-ROM. If the desired release is not
included on the CD-ROM, it can be
downloaded from cisco.com or it can
be obtained from your Cisco partner or
customer services representative.
Also, note that only the most commonly
deployed feature sets will be sold as
Cisco IOS Feature Packs. Other feature sets
remain available as traditional spare parts.
Contents of a Cisco IOS
Feature Pack
The Cisco IOSFeature Pack consists of two
deliverables:
A software entitlement document
A CD-ROM
OrderingaCiscoIOSFeaturePackrequires
knowledge of the desired router platform
and desired feature set. There is no need to
specify a particular release, the CD-ROM
will include all releases available on the
global pricelist.
The Software Entitlement
Document
The software entitlement document is a
written record of the right to operate the
feature set and should be maintained in a
safe place.

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