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An access server is actually a Cisco router that allows you to connect to multiple other routers and switches without continually moving the rolled cable around. You don't have to have an access server right away, but once you add a few more routers and switches in your lab, you'll get tired of moving the rollover cable from console port to console port. (The console port is used to directly connect your PC to the router.) You'll find an access server is easy to set up and configure, and will save you quite a bit of time.

What type of Cisco Access Servers are out there?

• Key component of Dial Access Stack Architecture (DASA)
• Scalability and investment protection through redundant backhaul support for mission-critical applications
• Industry-leading price performance in the universal access market
• Cisco IOS software, the industry standard, which enables differentiated services to run on Cisco AS5XX0 products
• High-density universal dial access

• EIA/TIA-232 auxiliary port for connection of a terminal or modem
• EIA/TIA-232 console port for connection of a console terminal
• Two synchronous serial ports for connection to a WAN
• 2-MB shared packet memory
• 4-MB to 8-MB Flash memory for running the Cisco Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS) image
• 32-KB nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM) to store configurations
• 2 MB to 16 MB (depending on the selected feature set) of primary memory, using dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) single in-line memory modules (SIMMs)
• 8 or 16 ports for connection to modems, terminals, or other asynchronous (EIA/TIA-232) equipment