Cisco Systems manual Features of the Cisco 12008 Router

Features of the Cisco 12008 Router

The networking capabilities and features of the Cisco 12000 series of routers make them ideally suited to meet the needs of the following classes of users:

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Internet service providers (ISPs)

Carriers providing Internet services and utilities

Competitive access providers (CAPs)

Enterprise wide-area network (WAN) backbones

Metropolitan-area network (MAN) backbones

Features of the Cisco 12008 Router

The Cisco 12008 router incorporates a high-speed switching fabric that provides high data- handling capacities for IP-based local- and wide-area networks. Figure 1-1 is a front view of the Cisco 12008 router.

All of the router’s major components and FRUs are accessible from the front of the router enclosure, making the router easy to install, configure, and maintain.

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