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SAN JOSE — Cisco over the next five years plans to radically change how it sells and delivers router and switch software, in part by making that software more virtualized and modular.
Cisco’s intention is to decouple IOS software from the hardware it sells, which could let users add enhancements such as security or VoIP more quickly, without having to reinstall IOS images on routers and switches. The vendor also plans to virtualize many of its network services and applications, which currently are tied to hardware-specific modules or appliances.
This shift would make network gear operate more like a virtualized server, running multiple operating systems and applications on top of a VMware-like layer, as opposed to a router with a closed operating system, in which applications are run on hardware-based blades and modules. Ultimately, these changes will make it less expensive to deploy and manage services that run on top of IP networks, such as security, VoIP and management features, Cisco says.
High-level details of the road map were delivered in a session at Cisco’s C-Scape analyst conference last week in San Jose by Cliff Metzler, senior vice president of the company’s Network Management Technology Group.
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“The way we’ve sold software in the past is we’ve bolted it onto a piece of hardware, and we shipped [customers] the hardware,” Metzler said. “We need more flexibility to allow customers to purchase software and to deploy it according to their terms.”
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HopkinsBy russian stock market on July 14, 2007, 4:45 amWhat about russian translate this article?
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Modular IOS production ready, or wait another year?By Anonymous on March 27, 2007, 6:49 pmHi, I'm about to deploy a couple of 6513's in an Enterprise data centre and was wondering if anyone has had any Production experience with Cisco’s new modular...
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What happens to support for existing bundled modulesBy Anonymous on December 23, 2006, 11:31 amThe new strategy is great news, albeit a few years late in my opinion. My organization is considering the purchase of 50+ 5350's for the sole purpose using the...
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Cisco's IOS set for radical pricing, feature changesBy Anonymous on December 21, 2006, 11:14 amExcellent strategy! Kudos to Cliff Meltzer for finally leading Cisco in the right SW model direction.
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To some degree EnterasysBy Anonymous on December 19, 2006, 7:18 pmTo some degree Enterasys NSeries DFE products already do this distributing enabled processes across the fabric to all modules in the chassis. Super redundant and...
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