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Cisco 10008 Router Hardware Installation Guide
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Cisco 10008 Router Overview
The Cisco 10008 router is a high capacity Layer 3 router optimized to support selected Cisco IOS
software services at wire speed performance on thousands of DS1/T1 connections. Designed primarily
for use in a telco central office environment, it provides interfaces that connect to large numbers of
subscribers using low-speed circuits, and then funnels all of that subscriber traffic into a small number
of high-speed trunk interfaces. The chassis has eight line card slots and two slots for Performance
Routing Engine (PRE) modules.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Cisco 10008 Router Features, page 1-2
• Cisco 10008 Router Software, page 1-3
• Cisco 10008 Router Hardware Description, page 1-3
Note The illustrations in this guide depict the original Cisco 10008 chassis. Your chassis may look slightly
different, but it is functionally the same.
The Cisco 10008 router is designed to meet and exceed the most stringent ISP requirements for product
availability and reliability. Its features include:
• Redundant blowers
• Redundant power (AC or DC)
• Redundant PREs
• Pairs of Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) interfaces which can be configured for redundancy
using SONET 1+1 Automatic Protection Switching (APS)
• All line cards, Power Entry Modules (PEMs), and blowers can be hot-swapped without powering
down the chassis