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Infrastructure to power AI

AI depends on powerful infrastructure.

Cisco has been deploying mass-scale infrastructure into hyperscalers for nearly a decade, powering some of the largest networks in the world.

With our expertise and customized solutions, we’ll help you scale your workloads to meet the increasing demands of AI.

How our solutions will help:

Cisco AI PODs: Put AI to work for your most common AI use cases with this full-stack, validated infrastructure.

Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI Cluster: Build powerful infrastructure to run GenAI applications — even if you don’t have deep IT skills.

Cisco Data Center Networking AI/ML Blueprint: Use this design framework to make the most of your current investments and build an AI/ML workload network with your existing Cisco hardware and software.

Cisco Validated Designs: These blueprints are tailored to specific use cases, so you can easily configure infrastructure for optimal performance.

AI solutions for Hyperscalers: These customizable architectures are designed to meet the high-performance Ethernet needs of large-scale AI/ML systems.

Security for AI, AI for security

AI brings new opportunities, but also new security risks.

Cisco delivers a comprehensive set of cybersecurity solutions to secure the entire AI stack, so you can gain all the benefits of AI while keeping the risks in check. From data center infrastructure to the high-value data AI uses and generates, Cisco protects it all.

How our solutions will help:

Cisco Secure Access AI Data Loss Prevention (DLP) functionality: Make sure your organization uses GenAI apps securely with this functionality that provides visibility into usage, granular control, and the ability to block uploads and downloads of sensitive data.

Cisco Hypershield: Automatically secure your network, quickly block threats, and implement self-updating security controls with our AI-powered cloud security system that’s integrated directly into your network.

Cisco XDR and Splunk Enterprise Security: Accurately and quickly detect, remediate, and prevent threats with this AI-enhanced security operations solution.

Data to drive insights and context

Data is the fuel for AI.

Whether it's used to build new models or being fed into AI to unlock insights and improve operational efficiency — quality, scale, and trust are essential.

How our solutions will help:

Better visibility: Gain visibility into data across your entire business, including both owned and unowned environments. This provides the context that AI models need to work effectively.

The power of Cisco plus Splunk: Together, we provide powerful data management capabilities to transform, route, and access data for critical security and observability needs.

Trustworthy technology: We partner with leading vendors to incorporate their models into our trusted solutions. We’re also building customized models to power our solutions responsibly.

Software to unlock productivity

We are embedding AI across Cisco's software portfolio, enhancing our products with AI-powered self-healing capabilities, automation, and expert guidance.

These capabilities allow IT and security teams, as well as line of business users, to be more effective in their roles and unlock new levels of productivity.

How our solutions will help:

Cisco AI Assistant: Easily interact with Cisco products to perform tasks and get the information you need.

Networking: AI is built into the network management system, automating routine tasks and reducing the need for manual work.

Security: AI enhances security by automatically managing and updating security measures, prioritizing important alerts, and quickly addressing threats.

Observability: AI helps monitor and analyze system performance so you can identify problems faster, adjust performance benchmarks, and more easily maintain system health.

Collaboration: Communication is more efficient than ever with AI-enhanced communication tools that provide better audio and video quality, automatic summaries of meetings, and more.

Services to accelerate the value of AI

Along with our partners, Cisco acts as a strategic guide to help your organization be better prepared for AI — from transforming your infrastructure to implementing the most effective strategies.

We help with planning, strategy, deployment, implementation, and adoption to ensure you realize maximum business value quickly.

How our solutions will help:

Cisco Lifecycle Services: Prepare your IT environment for AI.

Solution Support: Get fast, reliable support whenever you need it.

Cisco Success Tracks: Get expert advice, guidance, and support all on one digital dashboard.

Advanced Services: Reduce the risks that come along with large and complex technology deployments.

AI-enhanced customer support processes:

AI-driven virtual agents to resolve customer issues faster
Engineer assistants to help engineers work more efficiently
Root cause analysis and anomaly detection to identify problems quickly
Risk analysis to improve system reliability
Automated workflows and natural language interfaces to simplify interactions
Topology discovery and correlation to better understand your network

Additional resources

Accelerate your journey with Cisco AI

Responsible AI at Cisco - See how Cisco drives ethical and fair usage of AI across our company.

Cisco Responsible AI Framework - Learn how the Cisco Responsible AI framework guides AI development, deployment, and usage of AI at Cisco.

Cisco AI solutions - Explore how Cisco brings together infrastructure, security, observability, and a data platform for full coverage across your AI stack.

AI in CX - Learn how Cisco uses AI to transform security, collaboration, networking and more for end users.