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Cisco Powers AI-Ready Data Centers, from Hyperscale to Enterprise

Cisco unveiled groundbreaking innovations their unique AI workloads, all without technical integration of Cisco G200-based
to simplify, secure, and future-proof data adding complexity or sacrificing safety switches and NVIDIA NICs, demonstrating
centers, empowering organizations to and security. Cisco provides enterprise NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking
scale their AI ambitions with confidence. customers with new solutions to modernize based on Cisco Silicon One that supports
Cisco’s leadership in hyperscale and their data centers, including hardware NX-OS, Nexus Hyperfabric AI and SONiC
AI infrastructure-as-a-service markets innovation and more powerful, simplified deployments. Expanded AI PODs: New
demonstrates the foundational role that management capabilities. Cisco is also configurable AI PODs enhance flexibility
secure, resilient networking plays in continuing to build on its relationship with and scalability for diverse AI workloads,
today’s data center architecture. In Q3 NVIDIA to deliver validated infrastructure including training and fine-tuning. Cisco
FY25, Cisco notably surpassed its annual solutions, and to provide a safe and secure also continues to align with NVIDIA’s
target of $1 billion in AI infrastructure foundation for AI agents built with open innovation timeline; the NVIDIA RTX PRO
orders from hyperscalers a full quarter models. New innovations include; New 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU is now
ahead of schedule. Building on this Unified Fabric Experience with Nexus: available to order with Cisco UCS C845A M8
momentum, Cisco's latest innovations Customers will be able to simplify network servers. Together, the companies continue
enable enterprises and service providers to operations and enhance operational to work towards delivering validated
continue to accelerate the transformation efficiency across environments, converging solutions as part of the Cisco Secure AI
of their infrastructure for the AI era. These ACI and NX-OS VXLAN EVPN fabrics with Factory with NVIDIA Enabling Safe, Secure
innovations underscore Cisco’s unique unified data, control, policy enforcement, AI Adoption with NVIDIA: Cisco AI Defense
position as a trusted partner for hyperscale and management. The Unified Nexus and Cisco Hypershield provide visibility,
builders, neocloud providers, enterprises, Dashboard consolidates services across validation and runtime protection of the
and service providers, enabling the entire LAN, SAN, IPFM, and AI/ML fabrics into a end-to-end enterprise AI workflow and are
ecosystem to evolve and meet the demands single pane of glass. These capabilities will now included in the NVIDIA Enterprise AI
of AI-driven workloads. "The world is moving be available in the next Nexus Dashboard Factory validated design. With AI Defense,
from chatbots intelligently answering our release in July 2025. Maximize AI enterprises can secure AI agents built with
questions to agents conducting tasks and Networking Performance: Customers can leading open models and optimized with
jobs fully autonomously. This is the agentic optimize AI workload operations with Cisco NVIDIA NIM and NeMo microservices.
era of AI,” said Jeetu Patel, President and Intelligent Packet Flow. Now, it dynamically Optics for Simple Upgrades: New 400G
Chief Product Officer, Cisco. “As billions of steers traffic using real-time telemetry and bidirectional (BiDi) optics enables
AI agents begin working on our behalf, the congestion awareness across AI fabrics. customers to easily transition to 400G
demand for high-bandwidth, low latency With “end-to-end" visibility across networks, networks while preserving their existing
and power efficient networking for data GPUs, and distributed AI jobs, more issues duplex multi-mode fiber infrastructure
centers will soar. Cisco is at the forefront, are detected proactively. Additionally, ensuring cost efficiency, scalability and
delivering advanced, secure networking Cisco and NVIDIA showed progress enhanced data center performance. The
technology that’s foundational to the AI- towards a unified architecture; at Cisco new optics will be available in the second
ready data centers of the future.” “The Live, the companies showcased the first half of the calendar year 2025.
criticality of secure connectivity becomes
more apparent as AI use expands across
the enterprise,” said Matt Kimball, Moor
Insights & Strategy. “Cisco’s ability to deliver
AI-ready infrastructure to its customers,
along with its investment in AI-enabled
operations differentiates the company. It
is this kind of partner and customer-first
thinking that leads to AI-powered tools that
abstract the complexity associated with
deploying and managing AI infrastructure.
AI reaching its full potential is dependent
on a resilient network on which partners
build and deliver solutions and services."
Enterprises need to evolve and build out
their current infrastructure to support

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