CatOS

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name = CatOS



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CatOS (Catalyst Operating System) is Cisco Systems' obsoleted Unix-like operating system for many of their "Catalyst"-brand of legacy network switches. Originally called "XDI" [ [http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=25172&rl=1 Cisco Press: Configuring the Catalyst] ] by the switching company Crescendo Communications, Inc., Cisco renamed it to "CatOS" when they acquired Crescendo in late 1993. CatOS runs on Switches such as 1200, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500 series. CatOS still runs on Cisco high end switches such as their flagship Catalyst 6509, which can run in either Native or Hybrid mode. Native is where the switch runs only Cisco IOS and hybrid is where the NMP runs CatOS and the Route processor/MSFC runs IOS.

ee also

* Cisco IOS

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