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Cisco 12000/10700 v3.1.1 Router Manager User Guide
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Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the Cisco 12000/10720 Routers and the Cisco 12000/10720 Router
Manager a pplicat ion.
The Cisc o 12000 Series Rout ers are p art of Ciscos premier routing produc t family and play an integral
part in the n etwork arch itectu re. The Cisco 1 2000 Series Routers were designe d and developed for the
core of service provider and enterprise IP backbones.
The Cisco 10720 Router provides IP services to users at optical speeds at the edge of their networks. The
Cisco 1 0720 R out er provid es network a ccess u si ng Ethe rnet and Dy nami c Packet Transport (D PT)
techn ology for o pti cal conn ec tivity. E ach ro ut er i s eq uipp ed wi th o ne up lin k c ard an d one E the rne t
access card.
Figure 1-1 sh ows a typ ica l Cisc o 12000 Ser ies Rou ter s de ployment . T he Ci sco 120 00/10 720 Ro uter
Manager a pplic ati on sup por ts t he e nti re r ange o f th e Cisco 1 2000 Serie s R oute rs like: Cisco 12008 ,
Cisco 12012, C isco 12016, Ci sco 124 04, Ci sco 12406 , Cisco 12410, Cisco 12416 an d the Cisco 1072 0
Router.
Figure 1-1 Typical Cisco 12000 Series Router Deployment
The Cisc o 12000/107 20 Router Man ager applic ation works in conjunctio n with the Cisc o Element
Management Framework (Cisco EMF) application to provide element management for the Cisco 12000
Series an d Cisco 10720 Routers. T he Element Manage r include s FCAP mana gement.
ISP
Gig Eth
Cisco 12000 series
internet router
SONET(SDH)
VATM/GE
ATM/MPLS
Frame Relay
ATM
Ethernet
Cisco EMF and
C12kM server
Leased line
Telco
switch
PoS
PoS
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