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Cisco Secure Networking Simplifying Multicloud Networking
Mirko Grabel and Jubil Mathew of Cisco introduced Cisco Multi-Cloud Fabric, a network-as-a-service offering in Cisco Cloud Control that connects sites, regions, and AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud directly. They covered its Cisco-operated virtual points of presence, zero trust routing, ThousandEyes integration, and consumption pricing, and they demonstrated onboarding cloud networks and a Meraki site […]
Cisco Secure Networking Building Resilient Infrastructure
Sumant Mali and Mike Ketabforoosh of Cisco explained how Cisco is building resilient infrastructure for the AI and quantum era. Mali covered post-quantum cryptography across IPsec, SD-WAN, MACsec, and secure boot, including hybrid key exchange and live demos. Ketabforoosh introduced Live Protect, which uses eBPF-based shields to block exploits of known vulnerabilities until customers can […]
Cisco Secure Networking Cisco IT Experience with SASE
Sarvjeet Kaur and Claire Gobran of Cisco IT shared how Cisco became customer zero for Cisco Secure Access and moved its global workforce to SSE in phases. They covered the shift from on-premises VPN to zero trust access and generative AI protection, the architecture and support model behind the rollout, and the lessons they learned […]
Cisco Secure Networking Securing the Agentic Workforce
Hamzah Kardme and Nitin Kumar of Cisco explained how Cisco SASE is evolving to secure an agentic workforce. Kardme covered identifying and steering AI traffic at the edge, distributed security enforcement, and unified management in Cisco Cloud Control. Kumar detailed AI Access controls, agent identity, MCP server governance, and semantic inspection of agent tool calls. […]
Cisco Secure Networking Intelligent Autonomous Action with AgenticOps
Saurabh Goel and Kush Shah of Cisco demonstrated how AgenticOps brings AI-driven operations to Cisco Cloud Control. Goel showed deep reasoning in the AI Assistant handling a long-horizon wireless capacity planning task. Shah walked through the agentic loop of sensing, diagnosing, and remediating network issues, using live incidents from Cisco’s own network and early results […]
Cisco Secure Networking Ready for AI, Secure by Design
Bassam Khan of Cisco outlined the company’s secure networking strategy and argued that being AI ready and being secure are inseparable. He examined how agentic AI traffic changes network behavior, how the post-Mythos surge in reported vulnerabilities raises the stakes, and how Cisco’s three pillars of trusting the network, protecting every flow, and assuring every […]
Xsight Labs Why it Matters Together
Eric Vallone of Xsight Labs closed the company’s Networking Field Day 41 session by tying the X-Series and E-Series together around programmability without a power penalty and an open software model. With Yoav Galon, he addressed smart-switch integration, the XISA instruction set, Xsight’s position on P4, community outreach, manufacturing capacity, and space qualification for Starlink. […]
Xsight Labs Announcing E1L with Yoav Galon
Yoav Galon of Xsight Labs introduced the E1L at Networking Field Day 41, a 200G member of the E-Series DPU family that scales the E1 architecture down to lower power and cost. He detailed its three SKUs, shared SDK, and new form factors, including a COM Express module, and mapped the E-Series to cloud, edge, […]
The Architecture Argument with Xsight Labs
Yoav Galon, VP of Software at Xsight Labs, made the architectural case for the E1 DPU at Networking Field Day 41. He explained why Xsight built a many-core, on-path Arm compute fabric running standard Linux instead of an offload NIC with added cores, and walked through the E1’s programmable PCIe fabric, inline acceleration, open-source ESDK, […]
Xsight Labs A Data Plane you Program in Linux
Eric Vallone of Xsight Labs introduced the company’s software-defined approach to networking silicon at Networking Field Day 41, covering the X2 programmable switch and the E1 DPU. He also previewed the newly announced E1L, a 200G DPU aimed at firewalls, security appliances, and storage, ahead of a deeper architectural discussion by Yoav Galon. Vallone, who […]
Hedgehog Disaggregated Inference Demo with Sergei Lukianov
Hedgehog demonstrated disaggregated inference running across a pair of NVIDIA DGX Spark systems on a Hedgehog AI network and walked through the software stack behind it. Sergei Lukianov, Manish Vachharajani, and Marc Austin also explained how Hedgehog’s Kubernetes-based control plane handles GitOps, tenant-aware observability, EVPN multi-tenancy, multi-fabric interconnects, and fabric bring-up for AI clusters. The […]
Networking in the Age of Inference with Hedgehog
Hedgehog explained how the shift from AI training to inference is reshaping the data center network. Marc Austin, Manish Vachharajani, and Sergei Lukianov covered disaggregated inference, which splits prefill and decode across different accelerators, the role of KV cache transfers over a scale-out RDMA Ethernet fabric, and multi-plane back-end designs that keep online inference clusters […]
EVPN VXLAN with Cisco Nexus One
Takuya Kishida of Cisco explains how Nexus One delivers standards-based VXLAN EVPN interoperability between Cisco ACI and NX-OS fabrics. The session covers the evolution from multi-pod to multi-site designs, the new ACI border gateway, end-to-end segmentation with VXLAN GPO, and a Nexus Dashboard demo of unified multi-site configuration and cross-fabric visibility. Kishida, a principal technical […]
Modernize Data Center Fabrics with Cisco
Sai Natarajan of Cisco presents the Nexus One architecture and how it helps enterprises modernize existing data center fabrics for AI. The session covers Silicon One programmability, new 800G spine and high-density 100G top-of-rack switches, smart switches with embedded security, 400G BiDi optics, and coexistence across ACI, NX-OS, HyperFabric, and SONiC. Natarajan, who leads products […]
Bringing it All Together with HPE AI Data Center Solutions
An AI factory is more than a collection of GPUs: it’s a scalable, multi-tenant system that integrates infrastructure, operating environments, control-plane services, AI workloads, security, lifecycle management, and observability. This session brings the full HPE AI data center architecture together, illustrating how HPE is the only company that offers integrated compute, storage, and networking and […]
HPE Networking Data Center AI Data Center Operations in Action
As AI clusters grow in size and importance, seemingly minor network issues can cause costly job slowdowns or failures and become increasingly difficult to diagnose through conventional operational methods. Through customer examples and demonstrations, this session shows how HPE Networking Data Center Director and Mist Data Center Assurance combine intent-based automation and agentic AI to […]
HPE Networking Data Center Scale Across with PTX & Customer On Ramp with MX
The growth of distributed inference, AI agents, and multisite AI factories is transforming the WAN from basic connectivity into a critical extension of the AI infrastructure. Learn how HPE Juniper Networking’s PTX platforms provide high-capacity, efficient interconnection across AI clusters and sites, while the programmable MX portfolio gives enterprises and service providers a scalable, secure […]
Tackling the Power Challenge in AI Data Centers with HPE Networking
With power becoming a hard constraint on AI expansion, every watt consumed by the network reduces the power available for productive GPU compute. Learn how efficient design in silicon, optics, liquid cooling, and visibility & analytics minimize power consumption. At Networking Field Day 41, Yogesh Kumar, Senior Director of Product Management for Data Center Networking […]
HPE Networking Data Center Exploring Evolving Congestion Management in Scale-Out Networks
Managing congestion in AI training and inference fabrics is critical to maximize GPU utilization, minimize latency and jitter, and protect model accuracy and throughput. Ultimately, congestion-free networks are required to deliver the best end user experiences in the era of agentic AI. This session examines the evolution from dynamic and global load balancing to RDMA-aware […]
HPE Networking Data Center Scale-up Networking with Ethernet for Helios
AMD Helios delivers massive, rack-scale AI architectures, backed by HPE expertise in liquid cooling, system integration, and high-performance networking. Helios effectively announces the arrival of Ethernet into the scale-up domain, which has been dominated by proprietary protocols. Customers will now benefit from the Ethernet ecosystem that relentlessly drives down costs, pushes innovation forward faster, and […]