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Go go go Cisco Cisco is strengthening its portfolio for the AI powered enterprise and AI enabled organisations in 2026 and beyond. With enterprises rapidly embracing generative and agentic AI, whether in pilot phase or embedded in selected areas, AI agents are starting to work 24/7, demanding low latency and greater storage capacity.
Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems, recently spoke at the Cisco AI Summit, held in February in San Francisco and online, of the issues organisations globally are facing when it comes to embracing and embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into systems, processes and workflows. “There are lots of questions and discussions about what does it mean to your enterprise infrastructure, what does it mean to your security posture? What does it mean to application development cycles? All those things are really important," said Chuck. Plethora of AI projects and AI people Robbins was addressing the chief AI officers, the VPs of AI and the MLOps engineers who are increasingly setting up AI centres of excellence or AI councils in their own organisations, those teams that bring together technical, legal, HR, and business leaders to manage AI’s impact across the organisation. All major companies have one, and what they’re thinking about now is future proofing organisation infrastructure, as 24/7 AI agents require little to no downtime, and
they often work at a sustained, high- capacity pace. And so do their nemeses in cybersecurity, whether they attack or are counterparts that defend. Cisco Live Conference 2026 At the recent Cisco Live conference held in Amsterdam from February 9-13, the Cisco teams were showcasing their latest innovation to 21,000 IT professionals responsible for embedding AI into their organisations in its various shapes and forms. First up, at the centre of it all, is the Silicon One G300. It will be powering the new Cisco N9000 and Cisco 8000. Nexus One now delivers a unified management plane and the 1.6T OSFP (Octal Small Form-factor Pluggable) Optics delivers ultra-high bandwidth connectivity targeting AI scale out solutions for 1.6T switch to NIC links and 1.6T, 800G, 400G, or 200G switch to server links, offering customers high performance and reliability.
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AI innovation is moving faster than ever before
Jeetu Patel, chief product officer at Cisco, said: “AI innovation is moving faster than ever before and we’re delivering the critical infrastructure our customers need to move fast and adopt AI safely and securely.” At the heart of all Cisco innovation is a desire to answer infrastructure constraints always ensuring guardrails such as constant monitoring and protection is in place.
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