Cisco introduced a new wave of infrastructure innovations aimed at helping enterprises deploy secure and trusted agentic artificial intelligence at scale. Announced at the Cisco Live conference in Amsterdam in front of more than 21,000 IT professionals, the portfolio spans networking, security, observability, and sovereignty, unified through a single technology platform. Cisco framed these developments as critical to allowing customers to move quickly with artificial intelligence while maintaining strong safety and security controls across the data center and workplace.
A central launch is the Silicon One G300, which is designed to massively scale out the buildout of artificial intelligence clusters. The G300 offers Intelligent Collective Networking, delivering a 33% increase in network utilization and a 28% improvement in job completion time versus non optimized traffic. Cisco is introducing G300-powered N9100 and 8000 systems for artificial intelligence network builders including hyperscalers, neocloud providers, sovereign private deployments, service providers, and enterprises. These hardware advances are paired with the new Nexus One unified management plane, which is intended to simplify operations across on premises and cloud based data center deployments so customers can drive more profitable, less complex artificial intelligence data centers.
Cisco also expanded its AgenticOps strategy, using system wide awareness and cross domain telemetry from Cisco Networking, Security Cloud Control, Cisco Nexus One, Splunk, and other sources to automate, scale, and simplify operations in the artificial intelligence era. The biggest ever updates to Cisco AI Defense bring AI supply chain governance and runtime protections to agentic tool use, reducing the risk of compromise or manipulation. In addition, AI-driven advancements to Cisco Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) include intent-aware inspection of agentic AI interactions and tool requests, evaluating the “why” and “how” of agentic traffic to ward off novel threats so organizations can maintain agent integrity and control of agentic interactions.
Recognizing that infrastructure and software must be matched by new operating models, Cisco extended its support for customers with strict sovereignty and data handling requirements. Cisco Customer Experience is now providing support aligned with air gapped, on prem, and hybrid sovereign environments. Cisco Critical National Services Centers (CNSCs) across the UK, France, and Spain have been rolled out to serve organizations with rigorous controls, using dedicated facilities, segregated operational processes, and cleared personnel. Building on a 15 year legacy in Germany, Cisco now has 4 CNSCs across Europe, with a further CNSC under development in Italy, providing secure, approved technical assistance channels that respect national and sector specific sovereignty needs.
