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Cisco Expands Partnership with NVIDIA to

Accelerate AI Adoption in the Enterprise

Cisco announced plans for an expanded partnership with NVIDIA Ethernet enhanced and supercharged for AI. Together with Cisco’s
to provide AI technology solutions to enterprises. Enterprises rec- enterprise platforms and global reach, we can help companies
ognize that AI is essential to growth but remain early in their adop- worldwide build state-of-the-art NVIDIA infrastructure as they race
tion as they navigate the unique technical complexity and security to transform with AI.” By making it easier to integrate and standard-
demands of operating AI-ready data centers. The expanded part- ize on both Cisco and NVIDIA technology, customers will benefit
nership aims to give organizations flexibility and choice as they from current and future technology advancements in the NVIDIA
look to meet the demand of AI workloads for high-performance, Spectrum-X platform such as adaptive routing, telemetry, conges-
low-latency, highly power-efficient connectivity within – and be- tion control and low latency, as well as Cisco's broader networking,
tween – data centers, clouds, and users. “A robust and scalable AI security, and digital resilience portfolio, including the Splunk data
ecosystem is key to driving the transformative power of AI,” said platform. As businesses develop AI capabilities and train models
Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon. “This expanded part- on their own data, having a comprehensive security strategy be-
nership between Cisco and NVIDIA, just like our Verizon AI Connect comes crucial. “World Wide Technology’s long-standing partner-
strategy and solutions, builds towards accelerating and enabling ships with Cisco and NVIDIA has already resulted in cutting-edge
resource-intensive AI workloads at the Edge of the network.” The AI solutions that drive innovation and business transformation,”
NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform based on Cisco said Jim Kavanaugh, Co-Founder and CEO, World Wide Technol-
and NVIDIA silicon will form the foundation for many enterprise ogy. “By leveraging the strengths of Cisco’s deep expertise in the
AI workloads. By enabling interoperability between both compa- data center and NVIDIA’s advanced AI technologies, we are poised
nies’ networking architectures, the two companies are prioritizing to deliver unparalleled value to our customers and help them navi-
customers’ needs for simplified, full-stack solutions. The goal of gate the complexities of AI adoption with confidence.”
the expanded partnership is to allow customers to optimize their
AI infrastructure investments with a common architecture, using
their existing management tools and processes, spanning front
and back-end networks. “Enterprises are under immense pressure
to deploy AI quickly and effectively, and many leaders struggle to
justify the investment while balancing the risks,” said Chuck Rob-
bins, Chair and CEO, Cisco. “Together, Cisco and NVIDIA are part-
nering to remove barriers for customers and ensure they can op-
timize their infrastructure investments to unlock the power of AI.”
“Advancing at lightspeed, AI will revolutionize every industry,” said
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA. “NVIDIA Spectrum-X is

Cisco Introduces New Functionalities of Its Mobility Services Platform

Cisco has introduced new functionalities
of the Mobility Services Platform. Built and
deployed globally, delivered as-a-service,
and with an extensive API ecosystem,
it’s open to developers, Communication
Service Providers, and enterprises to create
new, differentiated value from the network,
from traditional IoT and voice services to
emerging AI-based services for people,
spaces, and intelligent machines. This
platform has been applied across high-
value use cases for people, places, things,
and fast-evolving intelligent machines. The
value of the platform has been recognized
by both Frost & Sullivan and Counterpoint
as the industry-leading Connectivity
Management Platform (CMP).

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