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Cisco 7206 Installation and Configuration Guide
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Product Overview
This chapter provides physical and functional overviews of the Cisco 7206 router. It contains physical
descriptions of the router hardware and major components, and functional descriptions of
hardware-related features. Descriptions and examples of software commands are included only when
they are necessary for replacing, installing, configuring, or maintaining the router hardware.
The following sections describe the Cisco 7206:
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Physical Description, page 1-2
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System Specifications, page 1-5
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Software Requirements, page 1-6
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Field-Replaceable Units, page 1-7
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Functional Overview, page 1-28
Note
The Cisco 7206 is also available as a router shelf in a Cisco AS5800 Universal Access Server. For
information about the Cisco 7206 as a router shelf in a Cisco AS5800 Universal Access Server, refer to
the Cisco AS5800 Universal Access Server documentation listed in the Preface,
“Related
Documentation” section on page xiv
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The Cisco 7206 is part of the Cisco 7200 series routers, which consists of the 2-slot Cisco 7202, 4-slot
Cisco 7204 and Cisco 7204VXR, and 6-slot Cisco 7206 and Cisco 7206VXR. The Cisco 7206 supports
multiprotocol, multimedia routing and bridging over a wide variety of LAN and WAN interface types.
Network interfaces reside on port adapters that provide the connection between the router’s three
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) buses and external networks. The Cisco 7206 has six slots
(slot 1 through slot 6) for the port adapters, one slot for an input/output (I/O) controller, and one slot for
a network processing engine. You can place the port adapters in any of the six available slots.
There are bays for up to two AC-input or DC-input power supplies. The Cisco 7206 will operate with
one power supply. While a second power supply is not required, it allows load sharing and increased
system availability.
Note
The Cisco 7206 does not support a mixture of AC- and DC-input power.
