Cisco
Cisco provides AI infrastructure, secure networking, and software solutions that unify IT operations for enterprises, hyperscalers, and service providers. Its portfolio includes purpose-built programmable silicon (Silicon One), a unified management platform (Cisco Cloud Control), and a distributed security fabric (Hybrid Mesh Firewall) to support AI workloads at scale.
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Product
Problem
Enterprises face the challenge of deploying and scaling AI workloads across fragmented IT environments, requiring networking and security infrastructure that can keep pace with the performance, efficiency, and resilience demands of modern AI applications. Legacy infrastructure lacks the unified management and purpose-built capabilities needed to support these workloads securely and at scale.
Solution
Cisco delivers a comprehensive portfolio of AI infrastructure, secure networking, and software solutions designed to unify IT operations and support AI workloads across data centers, clouds, campuses, and service provider networks. The company provides purpose-built programmable silicon, through initiatives like Silicon One, to power AI-scale networking with leading performance and efficiency for hyperscalers and enterprises. Cisco Cloud Control serves as a unified management platform offering one shared view across every IT domain, enabling enterprise operations to run at agentic AI speed. The portfolio also includes a distributed security fabric, known as Hybrid Mesh Firewall, to deliver zero-trust segmentation and application protection across data center, cloud, campus, and IoT environments.
Target Audience
Primary customers are enterprises, hyperscalers, service providers, and data center operators that need secure, high-performance network infrastructure to run AI workloads at scale.
Features
- Cisco Cloud Control: unified platform with one shared view across every IT domain
- AI-optimized networking combining scale, speed, and resilience for global AI workloads
- Silicon One: purpose-built programmable silicon optimized for AI workloads across hyperscalers, service providers, enterprises, and data centers
- Hybrid Mesh Firewall: distributed security fabric with unified management for zero-trust segmentation and application protection
- Smart Switches and Unified Edge solutions designed for secure, resilient enterprise networking
- Splunk Agent Observability (via Galileo acquisition) to observe and secure AI agents, models, and infrastructure