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Internetwork Operating System

Internetwork Operating System definition - hacker
An operating system software that runs on Cisco routers and switches comprising the majority of the Internet. IOS was first developed by William Yeager at Stanford UniversityÂ’s Knowledge Systems Laboratory. Yeager licensed the code to Cisco in 1987. IOS brought together a comprehensive collection of routing, switching, internetworking, and telecommunications functionality running on top of a full fledged multitasking operating system.

See Also: Internet; Operating System Software; Routers; Switch.

Triple Fiber Networks. [Online, 2006.] 3Fn Website. http://www.3fn.net/ cisco.php.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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