Wow, switch gear for a tenth the price of Cisco? So – almost competitively priced, then? 
Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up – NYTimes.com
Andreas von Bechtolsheim, a brilliant billionaire who has created some of the best-selling computer systems in the industry, is resigning as chief architect of Sun Microsystems to focus on a start-up that is challenging another industry giant, Cisco Systems.Mr. Bechtolsheim’s new company, Arista Networks, has built an ultra-fast network switch that costs one-tenth the price of similar products from Cisco.
