Sun Microsystems co-founder Andreas von Bechtolsheim, to whom the computer industry owes some of its top-selling products, has made the decision to resign from his position as chief architect of the company in order to shift in high gear another business.

The new company he will be serving, called Arista Networks, goes head-to-head with Cisco Systems, a multinational corporation that designs and sells networking and communications technology and services, since it [Arista] has developed a high-speed switch that is priced ten times lower than Cisco’s products of the like.

Even though it was only set up four years ago as von Bechtolsheim’s side project while he was still at Sun, Arista Network sits in high praise among other firms in Silicon Valley, mostly due to its management and update-friendly software.

Andreas von Bechtolsheim will be the company’s chairman and chief development officer and it is said he would be working alongside Jayshree Ullal, whom Arista officials are expected to name chief executive this Thursday. Ms. Ullal stepped down from her Senior Vice President of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Security Technology Group position back in May this year, after having served Cisco for the last fourteen years.

Stanford University professor David R. Cheriton, who, along with von Bechtolsheim, is an investor in Arista Networks (the two being the only investors in the company) will become the company’s chief scientist.

Both Cheriton and Andreas von Bechtolsheim invested in Google and VMware (a 1998-founded software developer) back in these companies’ early days, and they both became billionaires when the aforementioned businesses came into huge success.