End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Perpetual Licensing for Session Management Edition (SME)

Publisher

Cisco Systems

URL

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/unified-communications/unified-communications-manager-callmanager/eos-eol-notice-c51-2471470.html

Published

2021-05-19

Updated

unknown

Accessed

2026-09-25

HTTP status

200

License

Cisco copyright; all rights reserved; no-redistribution; short excerpts and locators only

Source notes citing this source

• The perpetual SME end-of-sale notice covers product IDs including SME-SESSION, LIC-SME-SESSION, SME-RTU, SME-VERS-12.5 and LIC-SME-SESS-UPG. in context
• Cisco directs perpetual SME customers to migrate to Session Management Edition under Collaboration Flex Plan 3.0 (A-FLEX-3). in context
• Cisco announced end of sale for perpetual SME licensing on 2021-05-19; the last day to order was 2021-11-17. in context
• For perpetual SME licensing, end of software maintenance was 2022-11-17, end of service contract renewal 2024-02-13, and last date of support 2024-11-30. in context
• The session-based SME licensing in the 8.x guide and 8.0 data sheet describes the retired perpetual model; current SME is licensed through Smart Licensing and Flex 3.0. inferred in context

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2021, May 19). End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Perpetual Licensing for Session Management Edition (SME). WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/cisco-eol-sme-perpetual-licensing

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-cisco-eol-sme-perpetual-licensing,
  title  = {End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Perpetual Licensing for Session Management Edition (SME)},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2021},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/cisco-eol-sme-perpetual-licensing},
  note   = {Cisco Systems, accessed 2026-09-25}
}