Cisco Systems Inc. will announce today a network switch for corporations, the Nexus 7000, which will allegedly provide a significant increase in traffic capacity over the company’s current products (the Catalyst series), to 15 trillion bits of data a second.
The Nexus 7000 combines Ethernet switching and storage capabilities into a single product and is designed to operate in corporate data centers. They will be powered by the NX-OS operating system, which will act as the brain of the data center. The Nexus Series of Cisco switches starts at $75,000 and will be available in the second quarter.
The Nexus project has required high research and development costs and the efforts of more than 500 engineers in the last four years, Cisco said. The new data center design proposed by Cisco will mean direct competition with server makers such as IBM and HP.
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