[PLUG] Telco industry version of Linux?

[Sean Whitney]

Cisco routers run IOS a command line proprietary OS that is specific for 
cisco routers.  It is very good OS design and is emulated in all sorts of 
other network devices by other manufacturers.

Sean

On Saturday 30 March 2002 14:06, you hammered at the keyboard:
> > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Stuart Mathews wrote:
> > > I read an article in eWEEK about a group who is developing a new
> > > "version" of Linux specifically for the telco industry.  Any ideas
> > > what such a version of Linux might entail?  What does a telco need
> > > from Linux that other industries may not?
> >
> > Telcos need reliability.  I'm talking SERIOUS reliability.
> >
> > Telcos are required by FCC regulations to provide service at an
> > unbelievably high level.
> >
> > For example, a dial-tone provider is allowed to take that dial-tone
> > service down for one second every two years.  Telephone number routing is
> > allowed to fail for two seconds every year.
> >
> > J.
>
> That explains it.
>
> So it sounds like telcos use equipment to route & manage voice (and data)
> traffic using computers that run UNIX-like operating systems?  If so, would
> such "computers" be the big routers & switches built by the Ciscos of the
> world?  I'm wondering because I had heard that such routers run a
> UNIX-like OS that Cisco developed.
>
>
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