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Cisco AI Networking in data centers

Unified AI data center networks built for breakthrough performance

Experience fast, secure, end-to-end Ethernet connectivity with AI-ready data center networking at scale with intelligence and operational simplicity—everywhere.

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AI innovations redefine data center networks

Modern AI workloads are dynamic and data-intensive, generating massive east-west traffic within data centers.

Cisco AI Networking, featuring Cisco Intelligent Packet Flow, reduces latency, boosts throughput, provides real-time telemetry, and ensures rapid convergence with proactive congestion management. This optimizes critical application-level tasks between XPUs to accelerate job completion, minimize idle cycles, and maximize ROI on your GPU investments, outperforming traditional approaches.

Infuse intelligence into every layer of your infrastructure

Build AI data centers with our integrated solution, combining Cisco's custom silicon, high-performance systems, Cisco Optics, and a flexible operating model, enabling savings and efficiency.

Capabilities that align with your needs

Power AI anywhere with high-performance networking

Take advantage of a unified UEC-ready architecture that delivers lossless, high-bandwidth Ethernet without vendor lock-in for seamless AI deployments.

Unified intelligence for operational simplicity

Achieve superior control and ease of use across your data center, enabling full visibility from AI jobs to the underlying infrastructure, and optimized automation for peak performance.

Trusted, vendor-agnostic AI ecosystem

Gain choice, deploy fast, and achieve desired business outcomes with our validated designs, leveraging joint innovations with NVIDIA and others.
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Cisco named a Leader by Gartner®

Gartner has recognized Cisco as a Leader for Data Center Switching, based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

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Purpose-built data centers for AI

Benefit from flexible, end-to-end solutions tailored to your data center's needs using an AI networking portfolio that is future-ready and capable of transporting AI workloads.

Cisco Silicon One

Leverage a unified, programmable, and AI-optimized networking architecture with industry-leading performance, up to 51.2 Tbps capacity and flexible AI data center deployment options.

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Cisco Nexus 9000 Series

Deploy an AI data center switching platform powered by Cisco's custom silicon and managed by NX-OS to deliver secure, high-density 400G/800G connectivity with transport-optimized features.

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Cisco 8000 Series

Build a network powered by Silicon One, which offers secure, scalable performance, streamlined operations, open SONiC networking, and advanced features for high-density, high-speed switching.

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Cisco Optics

Gain high-speed and reliable 400G/800G connectivity for AI networking. Powered by Cisco silicon photonics, they function as fully validated, field-programmable modules.

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Cisco NX-OS

Power your AI data centers with a unified, modular, and programmable NX-OS delivering high performance, scalability, and robust reliability, in addition to featuring advanced high availability (HA), security, virtualization, and integrated automation for simplified operations.

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SONiC NOS

Achieve your disaggregated network goals with an open-source, modular OS option on Cisco's future-proof hardware, offering containerized functions, configurable management tools, and API support.

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Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Configure, operate, and analyze your AI-ready data center network from one place. Orchestrate and manage network and security policies consistently across your infrastructure.

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Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI

Take advantage of a cloud-managed, full-stack solution integrated with NVIDIA and VAST Data for a simplified, scalable, and high-performance AI infrastructure.

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Accelerate value faster with flexible choices

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NVIDIA and Cisco solutions

Unlock agility and resilience with an AI networking ecosystem that delivers validated, end-to-end solutions with industry leaders like NVIDIA and others—for open, integrated and scalable data centers. 

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VAST and Cisco solutions

Through advanced networking from Cisco and VAST's AI-optimized storage capabilities, enterprises can build AI data centers at scale with real-time visibility and simplicity. 

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Accelerate data center innovation

AI is moving fast. Here’s how organizations can prepare to deploy AI workloads securely and quickly.

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Cisco Nexus performance validation for AI clusters

Cisco Nexus 9000 and Nexus Dashboard deliver proven Ethernet performance and operational simplicity for RoCEv2-based AI clusters.

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Cisco AI Networking solution

Let us help you build a foundation for AI-driven success with our extensive networking experience, resulting in an adaptive AI data center blueprint.

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Evolve the network for AI

Deliver high-quality experiences through intelligent and operationally efficient Ethernet-based solution.

Prepare for the AI revolution

Powering AI everywhere

Deploy a flexible AI data center solution that supports low-latency 400G/800G connectivity, Ultra Ethernet, and vendor-agnostic integration—enabling seamless AI infrastructure at any scale.

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