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Cisco 7201 Router
Product Overview
The Cisco
®
7201 Router is a compact, high-performance 1-rack-unit (1RU) router coupled with a
broad set of interfaces and Cisco IOS
®
Software features, making it ideal for both service providers
and enterprise applications (Figure 1).
The Cisco 7201 addresses the demand for performance and flexibility by further increasing its
processing capacity and enabling the latest Cisco IOS Software features.
Figure 1. Cisco 7201
Benefits of the Cisco 7201 include the following (refer to Table 1 for details):
Provides up to twice the performance compared to the Cisco 7301 – up to 2 million packets
per second (2Mpps) in Cisco Express Forwarding
Offers four built-in Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ports
Provides one dedicated 10/100-Mbps copper Ethernet port for management
Provides one USB port for general storage and security token storage
Offers 1 GB of DRAM memory by default; upgradeable to 2 GB of available DRAM
Offers greatly improved price/performance ratio
Provides a single Cisco 7000 Series port adapter slot
Supports complete Cisco IOS Software feature set
Provides pluggable GE optics (Small Form-Factor Pluggable [SFP] optics)
Has compact, power-efficient 1RU form factor
Offers front-to-back airflow and single-sided management
Broadband Applications
Broadband aggregation – PPP Termination and Aggregation/L2TP Access Concentrator
(PTA/LAC) or L2TP Network Server/L2TP Tunnel Switch (LNS/TS) Broadband Network
Gateway (BNG)/Broadband Remote Access Server router capable of handling up to 8000
simultaneous sessions and allowing for a pay-as-you-grow “rack and stack” architecture
TISPAN RCEF – Intelligent service gateway (ISG) router capable of intelligent subscriber
management that captures incremental revenue; supports up to 8000 simultaneous Point-
to-Point Protocol (PPP) and IP sessions.

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