AI-Ready Infrastructure: A New Era of Data Center Design

AI-Ready Infrastructure: A New Era of Data Center Design

The AI transformation imperative Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept—it has become a central driver of innovation, operational efficiency, and competitive advantage across industries. But AI adoption isn’t without its challenges. The Cisco 2024 AI Readiness Index highlights a growing urgency: 85% of organizations believe they have less than 18 months to implement an AI plan—or risk falling behind. Yet only 13% feel fully prepared to capitalize on AI opportunities. This significant…

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The New Family of Cisco Smart Switches: Built to Power What's Next

The New Family of Cisco Smart Switches: Built to Power What's Next

Introducing Cisco Smart Switches for the AI-powered enterprise This week at Cisco Live San Diego, we introduced a major leap forward in enterprise networking: The new family of Cisco C9000 Smart Switches, purpose-built for the AI-ready campus. These switches deliver blazing performance, quantum-secure networking, and radically simplified operations—supporting our new realities as AI transforms the way we work, collaborate, and operate. From retail environments to factory floors and from operating rooms to global campuses, AI…

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The Blueprint for AI-Driven Connectivity

The Blueprint for AI-Driven Connectivity

The internet ecosystem is in constant transition, and with that evolution comes changing dynamics and shifts across the value chain. As a result, these hubs were traditionally confined to a set of larger cities and contained to a small set of facilities within those. While the traditional interconnect model has served its purpose for decades, it is now becoming increasingly outdated. The evolution of distributed, dynamic services is exposing the inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and large failure…

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Cisco Silicon One Powers New Service Provider and Enterprise Data Center Solutions

Cisco Silicon One Powers New Service Provider and Enterprise Data Center Solutions

As the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution continues to unfold, service providers and enterprises are preparing to meet its unique demands. Cisco Silicon One has been deployed with hyperscalers building AI data centers at an unprecedented scale. Today, we are announcing three new Cisco Silicon One processor families that extend the scalability, security, and programmability of Cisco Silicon One to new use cases and enable future-proofed, resilient networking for service providers and enterprises.   Expanding Silicon One-based…

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Cisco Silicon One G200 AI/ML chip powers new systems for hyperscalers and enterprises

Cisco Silicon One G200 AI/ML chip powers new systems for hyperscalers and enterprises

Cisco Silicon One has stood for innovation since day one. It’s the first unified architecture for routing and switching silicon, provides the most scalable solutions in the industry, and offers the most customer choice, with the ability to consume in a variety of ways including silicon, hardware and full systems. It is now used in over 40 Cisco platforms across cloud, artificial intelligence / machine learning (AI/ML), service provider, enterprise campus and data center networks….

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Cisco Live 2024: Enhancing Network Simplicity and Efficiency While Facilitating Superior Digital Experiences

Cisco Live 2024: Enhancing Network Simplicity and Efficiency While Facilitating Superior Digital Experiences

In the evolving service provider scene where new user demands are constantly emerging, we know that transport needs an efficient, cohesive network architecture. Our Converged SDN Transport solution is a simplified, trustworthy, programmable network architecture that changes the economics of networks to deliver connected experiences at massive scale. The solution is an integral part of the Cisco Networking Cloud platform. We can help you transform your network’s economic landscape so you can streamline your network…

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Building a More Sustainable Global Network for the Future – Cisco and BT

Building a More Sustainable Global Network for the Future – Cisco and BT

Cisco Blogs / Executive Platform / Building a More Sustainable Global Network for the Future – Cisco and BT Cisco’s relationships with our service provider partners have always been crucial. Together, we’ve innovated, solved challenges, and connected the world. This partnership is even more crucial now as we work together to help organizations make sustainable decisions at scale.   I sat down with Bas Burger, CEO of BT Business, to talk about the work we…

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