Timos
Encyclopedia
TiMOS is a proprietary operating system
used on most recent Alcatel-Lucent
service routers and switches. Originally developed by Timetra, a US based startup firm. (TimOS stands for Timetra Operating System). Timetra was bought out by Alcatel-Lucent
in 2004 after a period of mutual engagement in projects. TimOS is used primarily on the Service Routers 7750 Service Switches 7450 Service Access Switches 7210 and Service Aggregation Routers 7705.
It has some similarities to Cisco IOS
however no emulator (such as Dynamips
or Olive
) is publicly available, and little is publicly known of the OS.
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
used on most recent Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services...
service routers and switches. Originally developed by Timetra, a US based startup firm. (TimOS stands for Timetra Operating System). Timetra was bought out by Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services...
in 2004 after a period of mutual engagement in projects. TimOS is used primarily on the Service Routers 7750 Service Switches 7450 Service Access Switches 7210 and Service Aggregation Routers 7705.
It has some similarities to Cisco IOS
Cisco IOS
Cisco IOS is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and current Cisco network switches...
however no emulator (such as Dynamips
Dynamips
Dynamips is an emulator program that was written to emulate Cisco routers. Dynamips runs on Linux , Mac OS X or Windows and can emulate the hardware of the Cisco series routing platforms by directly booting an actual Cisco IOS software image into the emulator....
or Olive
Olive
The olive , Olea europaea), is a species of a small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin as well as northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.Its fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the...
) is publicly available, and little is publicly known of the OS.