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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1130114373;fp;2;fpid;1

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.

The article discusses what Cisco has planned for the future, mainly a move to separate its switches and software for them (IOS), interestingly, this could mean the development of a virutal hardware switch.

“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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