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Since IOS XE has IOSd running as an application on top of Linux, it becomes possible to also run different applications on the hardware, a good example of this is running Wireshark on a switch. Another example is the Cisco IOS XE Open Service Containers.
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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. Since it runs a copy of IOS, all
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and a monolithic application (IOSd) that runs on top of this kernel. On the other hand, IOS XR is based on
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is a monolithic operating system running directly on the hardware while IOS XE is a combination of a
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commands are the same between Cisco IOS and IOS XE, in contrast to
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IOS XE is released separately for ASR 1000 and Catalyst 3850.
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ASR 1000
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Command line interface
Cisco IOS
Cisco IOS XE
release train
Cisco Systems
Internetworking Operating System
ASR 1000
Linux
CLI
IOS XR
Cisco IOS
Linux kernel
QNX
Cisco NX-OS
"Cisco IOS XE 17"
"Cisco's ASR 1000 router built for 10-year tenure"
"Logging into a Linux shell from a Cisco ASR1000 Series Router"
"Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers"
Cisco Systems
"Now a Look at Cisco IOS XE for the ASRs"
"Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Software Configuration Guide"

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