At long last, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim’s super secret switch has become not so secret.

Sun Microsystems today unveiled the x4950 streaming switch – the crucial component to a new video serving system.

The technology behind the box dates back to Bechtolsheim’s start-up Kealia, which Sun acquired in 2004, bringing Bechtolsheim back to the company he helped found. With the x4950, Sun has again released a system quite different from anything else made by main rivals IBM, HP and Dell.

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