Proﬁle Overview

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Using Profiles with Cisco 700 Series Routers

A proﬁle is a set of conﬁguration parameters associated with ports on the router or WAN devices.

This chapter contains the following sections:

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Proﬁle Overview

System and Proﬁle Parameters

Creating and Modifying Proﬁles

Incoming Calls

Outgoing Calls

There are two modes in which you can set parameters, the system mode and the proﬁle mode. System mode parameters affect the conﬁguration on a global level. Proﬁles are sets of local parameters. Proﬁle mode parameters affect how the router handles the connection to a device.

You do not have to reconﬁgure the router every time you connect to a different device. Instead of using one set of conﬁguration parameters for all devices, you can use different proﬁles to communicate with a variety of devices.

For example, you can create a user-deﬁned proﬁle called 2500 that contains the parameters to be used when communicating with a Cisco 2500 series router over the WAN. You can customize your Cisco 700 series router to maintain up to 17 user-deﬁned proﬁles. Proﬁles are saved in the Cisco 700 series router nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM).

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