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core router
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core router
A router that resides within the middle or backbone of the network rather than at its periphery. The routers that make up the backbone of the Internet are core routers. See edge router and WAN router.


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The authors add that although routers arc generally less vulnerable than computers because they offer fewer services, "there is the possibility that a current or as yet undiscovered vulnerability could be used to gain control of a number of backbone routers.
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