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.
Cisco portfolio for Mass-Scale AI Infrastructure
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Accelerate value faster with flexible choices
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.
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.