To help service providers pioneer the carrier-class Internet, the Cisco 12000 Series offers a complete line of Internet routing products within a unique, modular, distributed system architecture that delivers the highest backbone and edge performance, the industry’s only 10 Gbps Internet Router portfolio, the only guaranteed priority packet delivery , and the industry’s only proven investment protection.

• Cisco 12000 Series chassis
  A complete line of 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps platforms, designed to meet the diverse needs of service providers, from small to large POPs, backbone and edge.
• Cisco 12000 Series line cards
  A complete portfolio of line cards that scale up to OC-192c/STM-64c, and channelize down to DS1 line speeds
• Cisco 12000 Series technology
  Industry leading technology such as Very Short Reach (VSR) optics, Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT), and Cisco 12000 Series ISE

Frequently Asked Questions about Cisco 12000 Series Internet Routers

About Next Generation Internet Routing
Cisco's next generation Internet Routers, (Cisco 7400, 7300, 7600, 10000, 10700 and 12000) are a family of multimillion packets-per-second (pps) IP platforms for creating service-enabled Internets. These products deliver the highest performance, availability, operational efficiency, and greatest level of service for increasing service provider profitability and reducing operational costs across a variety of applications including: broadband aggregation, managed CPE, leased line aggregation, metro IP, Internet Data Centers, edge and backbone.

High Speed Provider Edge - Accelerating Services Deployment at the Edge of your network with Cisco IP Services Engine

Learn how the new IP Services Engine technology for the Cisco 12000 Series Internet Router can help you deploy high margin services at the network edge faster and cheaper with out sacrificing reliability or availability. This video will show you how Cisco IP Services Engine technology enables more intelligent networking at the edge through:

• advanced programmable ASIC hardware specifically designed for the edge
• packet classification technology which enables extremely high-speed edge feature processing
• versatile microcode which enables new features to be easily added with a software download rather than a costly hardware upgrade.

Distributed Architecture Video Tutorial

Learn about the technical features of a distributed architecture, which provides scalability, reliability and enables new profitable services. This brief video will provide a technical overview of distributed architecture as well as a comparison to centralized architecture and a discussion of the differences between the two.