Cisco outlined a series of AI infrastructure, security products and software designed to support AI agents, hyperscale data centers and enterprises for various workloads.
The upshot from Cisco Live in San Diego is that the networking giant is reordering its stack for AI workloads.
Cisco outlined AgenticOps. The company said AgenticOps is its AI-driven approach to running operations including telemetry, automaton and domain knowledge. Cisco AgenticOps is powered by Deep Network Model, a network-focused LLM, and Cisco AI Assistant, which identifies issues, root causes and automates workflows.
The company also launched AI Canvas, an interforce for customer dashboards enables collaboration between network, security and dev operations to collaborate and optimized.
Cisco delivers strong Q3 amid AI infrastructure, security traction
Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco, said: "As billions of AI agents begin working on our behalf, the demand for high-bandwidth, low latency and power efficient networking for data centers will soar."
Here's a look at what Cisco announced at Cisco Live:
- Unified management of Cisco platforms including ACI, NX-OS and other systems with dashboards, policies and controls. Cisco launched the Unified Nexus Dashboard, which consolidates services across all services.
- Cisco Intelligent Packet Flow, which steers traffic using real-time telemetry and congestion data across AI networks. The service has visibility across networks, GPUs and distributed AI jobs.
- Cisco and Nvidia are unifying architectures and outlined their first technical integration of Cisco G200-based switches and Nvidia NICs. The companies also demonstrated Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet networking based on Cisco Silicon One.
- The company expanded AI PODs to support Nvidia's release cadence. Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU is available to order with Cisco's UCS C845A M8 servers. Cisco and Nvidia will work together on validated systems for the Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia.
- Cisco AI Defense and Cisco Hypershield are now included in the Nvidia Enterprise AI Factory validated design.
- Cisco AI Defense can secure AI agents with open models and optimized with Nvidia NIM and NeMo microservices.
- The company has embedded its security offerings into its networking gear. Cisco has embedded zero trust and observability into the network, added a new generation of firewalls (6100 Series, 200 Series) and tightened integration with its Splunk unit.
- Cisco is bringing together Meraki and Catalyst into one unified management platform for next-gen wireless, switching, routing and industrial networks across all platforms.
- ThousandEyes and Splunk are now integrated for network to application visibility.
- Cisco launched new Cisco C9350 and C9610 Smart Switches for campus networks and 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400 and 8500 Secure Routers, which has integration with Cisco's security portfolio.
- The company launched Cisco Wireless 9179F Series Access Points for campus networks.
- Cisco rolled out a series of rugged switches for industrial AI use cases.
