Cisco 7204 VXR Router Chassis CISCO7204VXR

today on Paul's old crap we're going to take a look at the Cisco 7200 series chassis router specifically the 7204 VXR model which I own the VXR series offers a backplane improvement over the original 7200 models and allows for faster network processor engines as I believe the non VXR models are limited to about 225,000 packets per second the chassis was available in neither for module or 6 module sizes as indicated by the specific model number 7200 for or 7206 full end-of-life and end of support for all members of the 7200 family appears to have been reached in around 2017 though these routers were around for a very long time before that point I believe the original 7200 models were released in 1996 with the VXR series arriving in around 2002 I first got to see these in action at my job in 2005 as we used a pair of VXR routers for our border the original processing engine model numbers