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Cisco Silicon One Expands to Campus: Chip-Embedded Control Locks Agentic AI Networks
Cisco extends Silicon One to campus with C9550/C9350 switches and Cloud Control, embedding distributed visibility, sustained high throughput, and adaptive programmability directly into the silicon. Deep on-chip buffering, identity-aware forwarding, and sub-second policy updates shift control from perimeter devices to chip and cloud-native orchestration, targeting agentic AI workloads.
Cisco Cloud Control & AI Canvas: The Control Point Shifts from Hardware to the AI Decision Plane
At Cisco Live 2026, Cisco launched Cloud Control, an AI-ops platform with agentic workflows, and AI Canvas for human-agent collaboration. The platform leverages Splunk's data fabric and proprietary models trained on 40 years of Cisco data. The Silicon One architecture now unifies campus and cloud switches. This marks a strategic pivot from hardware vendor to AI platform, shifting the control point to the AI decision plane.
Cisco Scale-Across: Converged Silicon and Optics for Distributed AI Training
Cisco unveils Scale-Across architecture combining Silicon One P200 routing (51.2Tbps) and coherent pluggables (400G/800G ZR/ZR+) with open line systems, enabling deterministic low-latency, lossless connectivity for distributed AI training across data centers separated by tens of kilometers.
Cisco G300 Intelligent Packet Flow: Hardware-Accelerated AI Networking Breakthrough
Cisco launches Intelligent Packet Flow on Silicon One G300, transforming the fabric into an intelligent system with hardware-accelerated adaptive routing, collective congestion awareness, and telemetry. In 8K-16K GPU clusters, it reduces CCT by 87% vs ECMP, improves JCT by 82%, and unlocks 28% more GPU efficiency.
Cisco-AMD Benchmark Shifts AI Fabric Control from GPU to SmartNIC and Switch
Cisco and AMD jointly release benchmarks for AI scale-out fabrics using N9000 800G switches, Pensando Pollara 400 smartNICs, and MI300X GPUs. IBPerf and MLPerf tests show P01/P99 bandwidth near 400Gbps line rate under incast congestion, proving deterministic performance that eliminates GPU stalls.
Cisco Launches Nexus Dashboard 4.2, Enhancing Network Monitoring and Security for AI Workloads
Cisco has released Nexus Dashboard 4.2, a data center management platform update. Key enhancements include Slurm integration for AI/HPC job monitoring, LLDP-based integration with NVIDIA NICs for adaptive routing, and Live Protect for zero-downtime vulnerability mitigation using eBPF. The release aims to provide a unified, intelligent, and secure operations plane for hybrid cloud and AI infrastructure.
Cisco Launches Liquid-Cooled Network Switch, Extending Cooling Architecture to AI Infrastructure Core
Cisco has officially launched its N9000 and 8000 systems with direct-to-chip liquid cooling, extending liquid cooling from GPU servers to network switches. The product doubles bandwidth density and reduces energy consumption by nearly 70%, addressing the thermal challenges of high-power AI clusters. This move signals a shift in data center cooling architecture from component-level optimization to systemic redesign.
Cisco Consolidates Hardware and Product Organizations to Strengthen Full-Stack Innovation in AI Era
Cisco announced that its Common Hardware Group (CHG) will be integrated into the Product Organization led by Jeetu Patel. This move aims to enhance portfolio alignment, accelerate the delivery of differentiated solutions for the AI era, and underscores full-stack innovation from silicon to application as a core differentiator.
Cisco Positions Network as Energy Control Layer for AI Infrastructure
Cisco's blog outlines energy as a critical bottleneck for AI scaling, citing a next-gen AI data center design for a European bank. It emphasizes the network's role at the convergence of digital and energy systems, positioning it as a control layer for visibility, coordination, and security to manage energy, cooling, and space constraints for AI workloads.
Cisco Validates On-Premises AI Deployment Logic with Internal Case Study
Cisco's Customer Experience (CX) unit deployed on-premises AI infrastructure using UCS servers and Nexus switches to handle sensitive customer data, addressing cloud-related data sovereignty and unpredictable inferencing cost challenges. This move demonstrates an architectural shift from variable operational expenses to deterministic capital investment for AI workloads.
Cisco Expands Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to Edge and Security
Cisco expands its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to enable AI deployment from data centers to edge sites, adding security capabilities like firewall policy enforcement on DPUs and AI Defense integration, offering flexible architecture options to accelerate production scaling.
Cisco and NVIDIA Extend Secure AI Factory with Network-Security Integration
Cisco and NVIDIA deepen collaboration on Secure AI Factory, extending AI deployment from core to edge. Launch high-performance switches with NVIDIA Spectrum and expand security enforcement to DPU level with AI guardrails integration.
Cisco Launches AI Infrastructure Chip and AgenticOps Platform to Strengthen Unified Architecture Strategy
Cisco introduced Silicon One G300 chip and AgenticOps platform to optimize AI cluster network performance and job completion time, while simplifying hybrid cloud operations via unified Nexus One management plane. Its updated AI Defense solution focuses on AI supply chain governance and runtime protection.
Cisco Launches G300 Chip and Systems for AI Agent-Era Data Center Networking
Cisco introduces 102.4Tbps Silicon One G300 switching chip with liquid-cooled N9000/8000 systems delivering 70% energy efficiency, 1.6T optics support, and Nexus One unified management plane upgrade.