Developer Cisco Systems Working state Current Userland Linux | OS family Unix-like Source model Closed source | |
Platforms Some Cisco routers (such as ASR 1000) and some Catalyst switches (such as 3850) | ||
IOS XE is a train of Cisco Systems' widely deployed Internetworking Operating System (IOS), introduced with the ASR 1000 series.
It is built on Linux and provides a distributed software architecture that moves many operating system responsibilities out of the IOS process and has a copy of IOS running as a separate process.
Releases
IOS XE is released separately for ASR 1000 and Catalyst 3850.
References
Cisco IOS XE Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA