Cisco – Devices that utilizes CISCO IOS Operating system

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I am a bit confused about the CISCO IOS operating system. My final year research project is based on solving some security vulnerabilities that i dug up that exists in the CISCO IOS, thus i need to find a CISCO router to implement my solution.

This is a very non technical question, but will any of you experts would be willing to help me to find a CISCO product that uses the CISCO IOS or does every product from CISCO use the CISCO IOS?

I tried searching in many ways but could find any 🙁

Thank you

Best Answer

Cisco IOS is the standard operating system from Cisco. It runs on 800/1800/1900/2800/2900/3800/3900/7600 routers. It also runs on Catalyst 2960/3560/3750/4500/6500.

Some newer platforms such as Catalyst 3650 and 3850 run IOS XE which is IOS running as a daemon on a Linux kernel.

Then you have NXOS which runs on the Nexus platform.

IOS XR runs on the SP platforms such as ASR9k.

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