IOS release 15.X ????

[glen.grant]

Trying to figure cisco's new release and why they jumped from 12.X code to 15.X code. What happened to 13 and 14 . :-) I see this out there for the 2800 series now . It's a ED release. It looks like they made 15.X the mainline code for the 12.4T train , wonder why they skipped 13.0 or 14 ? Sounds like they are taking it down to 2 trains either maintenance or T trains , about time they simplified it !!!

c2800nm-spservicesk9-mz.150-1.M.bin

[Reza Sharifi]

Glen,

I think Cisco IOS developers must be superstitious. I thought they may announce 13 around Halloween.

As for ver 14, apparently that is also an unlucky number in Asia.

Thanks.

Reza

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia

[Lucien Avramov]

Correct, 12.4T i moved to 15.X.

There should be releases every 4 months or so.

IOS 15.0 doc:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10591/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

The doc with the new features:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10591/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

There is also the concept of having 1 IOS image with all featureset on the device running 15.0 and a license will activate either features on the router. So no more need to download and upgrade to another image.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9677/products_ios_technology_home.html

As far as why no 13 nor 14, no idea. It may come later for main trains, I dont know.

[glen.grant]

It still looks like there is a bunch of different images you have to choose from adenterprise,ipbase,ipvoice etc... so is the single image in the future still ??? The idea seems like an administrative nightmare a lot of times the actual equipment is ordered by people with lesser networking knowledge and if you are under tight time constraints which you always are this will be a real hassle if the features you need aren't activated.