Cisco Systems Cisco 12016, Cisco 12416, Cisco 10720, Cisco 12012 manual Overview, C H A P T E R

C H A P T E R 1

Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the Cisco 12000/10720 Routers and the

Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager application.

The Cisco 12000 Series Routers are part of Cisco’s premier routing product family and play an integral part in the network architecture. The Cisco 12000 Series Routers were designed 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 10720 Router provides network access using Ethernet and Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT) technology for optical connectivity. Each router is equipped with one uplink card and one Ethernet access card.

Figure 1-1shows a typical Cisco 12000 Series Routers deployment. The Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager application supports the entire range of the Cisco 12000 Series Routers like: Cisco 12008, Cisco 12012, Cisco 12016, Cisco 12404, Cisco 12406, Cisco 12410, Cisco 12416 and the Cisco 10720 Router.

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