Network Card User Manual

About This Guide vii
About This Guide
This section discusses document objectives, targeted audience, document organization, document
conventions, terms and acronyms, and additional documentation available.
Document Objectives
This document describes the initial site preparation, hardware installation, and troubleshooting of
the Cisco AS5800 universal access server (Cisco AS5800), which consists of the Cisco 5814 dial
shelf and the Cisco 7206 router shelf. Also included is information describing the hardware
components, including dial shelf cards, dial shelf controller cards, blower assembly, maintenance
monitors, power supplies, and cables.
Audience
This publication is designed for the system technician who is responsible for installing the
Cisco AS5800. The system technician should be familiar with electronic circuitry and wiring
practices and have experience as an electronic or electromechanical technician. It is assumed that the
system technician has experience with the installation of high-end networking equipment.
This publication does not include software configuration instructions for the Cisco AS5800. For
software configuration, refer to the Cisco AS5800 Universal Access Server Software Installation and
Configuration Guide that shipped with your access server. The Cisco AS5800 Universal Access
Server Software Installation and Configuration Guide will be replaced by the Cisco AS5800
Universal Access Server Operation, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning Guide,
available later this year.
This publication does not address the specific dial shelf cards for the Cisco AS5800. For specific
information about the dial shelf cards, refer to the Cisco AS5800 Universal Access Server Dial Shelf
Card Guide that shipped with your access server.
For a complete description of Cisco IOS software, refer to the Cisco IOS configuration guides and
command references and to the documents listed in the section “Related Documentation” in this
chapter.