Cisco combines experience powering the most demanding hyperscaler environments with decades of enterprise network leadership to help you deploy and operate AI across your organization with confidence.
Reimagine your data center for the AI era, not just an AI cycle
Data centers must deliver predictable, optimal performance and security—while balancing costs and meeting evolving business needs.
Urgency to move fast
Business pressure to accelerate AI initiatives is intense. It requires scalable infrastructure that holds up to new processing, throughput, and latency demands.
Intensifying threat landscape
Protecting a highly distributed environment from frontier-AI threats needs a new approach—with security fused into every layer of the data center.
Pressure to control costs
It's easy to underestimate the cost of AI initiatives. Managing infrastructure costs without compromising performance is essential.
Complex environments
AI must be closer to the data, so infrastructure has to span across core, cloud, and edge—with visibility and resilience across increasingly complex environments.
Accelerate AI initiatives without compromise
Move fast and stay steady. We help you maximize agility, control costs, and build digital resilience.
Power AI anywhere with faster time to value
Deploy faster with pre-validated, integrated systems, spanning silicon to Kubernetes, that support training, fine-tuning, and inference at scale—anywhere you need it.
Enforce security consistently everywhere
Protect every layer—from infrastructure to applications, workloads, and AI models—with distributed enforcement points.
Strengthen digital resilience with observability
See across your entire IT environment in real time—from core to edge to cloud—to keep systems running securely and performing as expected.
Optimize economics, efficiency, and sustainability
Transform your operations and realize cost and energy efficiencies while scaling your AI capacity and consolidating your footprint.
How Cisco helps
Whether you're modernizing existing infrastructure or building for AI, Cisco delivers complete systems engineered to work as one.
Full-stack infrastructure, engineered to work as one system
33% higher network utilization
Cisco delivers robust systems with networking, silicon, compute, and optics to power all workloads—customized to your needs, with the flexibility to scale and evolve with you.
Unified observability and management
Reduce troubleshooting time by 45–60 minutes
Cisco removes the silos across your environments with automated management of traditional and AI workloads, plus unified observability with Splunk. Troubleshooting across teams has never been easier.
Security fused into every layer
From critical vulnerability to fabric-wide protection in hours, not months
With Cisco, security is fused into the fabric—not bolted on. From post-quantum-ready encryption and automatic vulnerability shielding to AI runtime guardrails, every layer of the stack is protected.
The Cisco difference
Cisco fuses security directly into the network fabric, from the switch port to the Kubernetes workload, and delivers observability across the stack for actionable insights. More resilience, with less hardware and complexity.
Cisco accelerates time to value and simplifies deployments with pre-validated designs, automation, and a robust partner ecosystem, plus professional services expertise.
With programmable silicon, modular infrastructure, and an open ecosystem, Cisco helps you scale and evolve in the AI era at your own pace—without rip-and-replace upgrades or vendor lock-in.
Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
Accelerate development, deployment, and management of AI workloads for the best results.
Cisco AI PODs
Deploy AI infrastructure faster with pre-validated systems engineered for scale, performance, and simplicity.
Cisco Unified Edge
Redefine edge computing with a full-stack platform that delivers data center performance, modularity, centralized management, and built-in security.
Cisco AI Networking in data centers
Unleash breakthrough AI with intelligent, secure networking engineered for training, inference, and scale.
Cisco Silicon One
Deliver programmable, power-efficient networking built to adapt as AI infrastructure evolves.
Cisco Cloud Control
Streamline IT and security operations with unified visibility and centralized cloud management across your environments.
Splunk
Detect threats and simplify observability across environments with AI-powered monitoring.
Hybrid Mesh Firewall
Enforce consistent security across distributed environments, delivering zero-trust segmentation and AI-powered threat protection unifying every firewall form factor.
AI Defense
Protect AI applications with visibility, guardrails, and real-time threat detection for secure AI development and usage.
Live Protect
Mitigate critical vulnerabilities in real time with kernel-level protection and automated threat controls without downtime or disruption.
Real-world success stories
Discover how Cisco and our customers transform the data center to power AI securely, at scale, anywhere.
The McLaren F1 Team relies on Cisco for a unified technology approach
McLaren uses Cisco AI-ready infrastructure to power workloads across the globe and connectivity to make split-second decisions on the track.
Cisco deploys AI-ready data center
Cisco IT built AI-ready infrastructure with Cisco compute, NVIDIA GPUs, and networking for AI training and inferencing use cases.
PepsiCo builds AI-ready infrastructure at the manufacturing edge with Cisco
PepsiCo gets ready to run real-time AI workloads at scale on the factory floor by transforming its data center with modular, ultra-low latency systems.
Resources
Report
AI Readiness Index 2025: How AI Leaders Architect Infrastructure Differently
Report
Strategic Investments in Data Centers for the AI Era
Paper
Guidance for Defending in the Age of AI-Enabled Attacks
Webinar
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