What Is the Cisco 7000 Series?
The Cisco 7000 series consists of the Cisco 7000 and Cisco 7010 routers. The FEIP2 operates in the Cisco 7000 series routers if these routers have the 7000 Series Route Switch Processor (RSP7000) and 7000 Series Chassis Interface (RSP7000CI) installed. (For software and hardware requirements, refer to the section “Software and Hardware Prerequisites” on page 3.) Network interfaces reside on modular interface processors, including the FEIP2, which are inserted into interface processor slots and provide a direct connection between external networks and the high-speed CxBus in the Cisco 7000 series. The Cisco 7000 series supports any combination of available network interface types. In the 7-slot Cisco 7000, slot 5 is reserved for the RSP7000 (7000 RSP slot shown in Figure 3), which contains the system processor and performs packet switching functions, and slot 6 is reserved for the RSP7000CI (7000 CI slot shown in Figure 3), which contains all of the environmental monitoring functions fo
