Cisco Systems is to sell its Nexus 7000 network switch wit the same features as server and storage systems, Bloomberg reports.
The leading network provider will release the product in the spring, strengthening its market position.
It is expected that a typical configuration of the switch will cost as much as $250,000, Jayshree Ullal, a senior vice president at Cisco Systems, told Bloomberg.
Speaking of Cisco's plans to sell the equipment which will perform the same functions as servers and storage systems, Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with Boston's Yankee Group told Bloomberg: "They are moving into the realm of the computing vendors."
Some 500 engineers have worked for four years on the new switch, which has cost the company an estimated $250 million.
Ms Ullal said: "This is our biggest announcement in the past decade."
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