The Internet is rapidly becoming an electronic agent for commerce, entertainment, communication, and information retrieval. New network-enabled intranet applications and powerful desktop computers are driving an exponential increase in network traffic. Service Providers and Enterprises are rapidly deploying packet switching infrastructures to handle this tremendous growth in data traffic.The Clock and Scheduler Card is a multi-function circuit board that can be installed in one or both of two reserved slots (CSC0 and CSC1) in the middle of the upper card cage of Cisco's 1208 router. As a multi-function board, the CSC provides system clocking, resource allocation, and scheduling.