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Originally Posted by bomber_g
Going back from the CMTS's to the outside world, you'll usually have a link to the core network (really big routers, which handle local routing), and then a link form there to the backbone (REALLY big routers, which shove HUGE amounts of traffic between each other) - this is pretty standard network design
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I think the word you're looking for is "fast" not "big".
Carrier routers start at about the size of a desktop monitor and chassis of them begin about the size of a desktop PC.