Resilient Wireless Networks for AI with Cisco Enterprise Networking
Minse Kim, Cisco’s wireless product manager, emphasized that the AI era is profoundly changing enterprise networking, extending beyond data centers to encompass “physical AI” applications in factories, medical facilities, and dynamic workspaces. He noted that surging demand for AI infrastructure components is also influencing customer buying cycles, with some customers proactively investing in Wi-Fi 7 […]
Smarter Switching for AI with Cisco Enterprise Networking
The foundational goal of campus switching (providing connectivity to users and endpoints) remains unchanged, but the ecosystem it serves is undergoing rapid transformation driven by evolving applications and devices. Kenny Lei, a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, highlighted the pervasive influence of AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, the surging adoption of Wi-Fi 7 […]
Secure Routing for AI with Cisco Enterprise Networking
Secure Routing with Cisco Enterprise Networking tackles the increasing complexity, user experience demands, and security requirements of modern WAN networks, especially with the advent of AI branches. Rahul Sagi introduced Cisco Secure Routers, launching in 2025, designed to converge Cisco’s best-in-class networking with advanced security in a single product. This convergence is enabled by a […]
Cisco Enterprise Networking Platform Approach
Cisco is unifying its enterprise networking platforms (Meraki and Catalyst) to deliver a single, consistent user experience with common AI and data services, consistent APIs, and shared workflows across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid deployments. This unification began with the creation of a dedicated network platform team that brought together the Meraki and Catalyst groups to […]
Cisco Enterprise Networking Vision, Strategy, and Execution
Cisco presents its enterprise networking vision and strategy, detailing how it is executed from a platform perspective, particularly in the context of the rapidly evolving AI era. Kiran Ghodgaonkar, who leads product marketing for Cisco’s Secure WAN portfolio, introduced the session and outlined how the company is adapting its familiar routing, switching, wireless, and management […]
Building AI Pods with Nexus Hyperfabric from Cisco
This presentation introduces Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric, a cloud-managed platform that simplifies the deployment and ongoing management of AI infrastructure. It addresses the growing need for repeatable, scalable, and operationally efficient networks specifically for enterprise AI clusters. Cisco emphasizes that while hyperscalers build immense AI factories, a significant and growing market exists for smaller, enterprise-level AI […]
Cisco Reference Architectures for AI Networking with the Nexus Dashboard
Cisco provides comprehensive reference architectures for AI networking, scalable from small 96-GPU clusters up to massive 32,000-GPU deployments. These designs, available on Cisco.com and Nvidia.com, are vendor-agnostic, supporting Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. The core focus is to simplify operations for customers, ensuring ease of design at scale while maintaining automation and end-to-end visibility. This is […]
Cisco AI Cluster Design, Automation, and Visibility
Cisco’s presentation on AI Cluster Design, Automation, and Visibility, led by Meghan Kachhi and Richard Licon, aims to simplify AI infrastructure and address the challenges of lengthy design and troubleshooting cycles for GPU clusters. The core focus is on enhancing cluster designs, automating deployments, and providing end-to-end visibility to protect a competitive edge. The session […]
Signal 65 Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Compute-ready data for AI Enterprises are discovering that PDFs are for people; machines need something else. As AI systems move from experimentation to production, raw documents limit accuracy, performance, and trust. This session covers a proof-of-concept engagement exploring why unstructured content must be transformed into secure, compute-ready assets to deliver faster insights, predictable performance, and […]
Futurum Research Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Futurum Research analysts are closely connected to the industry in their coverage areas, providing insights into the implications of trends for both vendors and customers. This presentation will provide an overview of these insights, drawn from two recent reports published for Futurum Research subscribers. Fernando Montenegro: Are We Clear On What We Mean When We […]
Solidigm Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Redefining Scale and Efficiency for the AI Era Solidigm is bringing in one of our outstanding partners, Vast Data, to co-present at AIIFD4. These session we are going to work on the discussion of what is going on in 2026, the markets, the directions, the innovations and the challenges. The first session will be Solidigm […]
Fabrix.ai Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Fabrix’s Enterprise-Ready AgentOps Platform powered by Agentic Middleware – Deep dive & demo Enterprises are able to derive very little value from AI agents and agentic workflows, though there are several experimental demos and siloed implementations. They lack enterprise readiness for production use cases at scale. This is particularly true when dealing with Operational use […]
Forward Networks Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Forward Networks Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day Risk lives in the gap between design intent and operational reality. Join Forward Networks at AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 to see how we are closing that gap. By pairing agentic operations with the industry’s only mathematically accurate network digital twin, we are replacing manual bottlenecks with […]
Xsight Labs Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Xsight Labs Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day This presentation provides a comprehensive deep dive into a next-generation semiconductor ecosystem designed for AI Factories and Cloud infrastructure. It highlights the technical architecture and real-world applications of the X-Series and E-Series chips, focusing on how “software-defined” hardware can optimize scale, power efficiency, and time-to-market.
Hammerspace Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Break free from the constraints of traditional storage infrastructure: Unify your data estate and maximize existing investments AI is in the midst of a market transformation. Whole industries are moving from research and training to production and inference, yet enterprises still struggle to get their arms around the fundamental challenges of organizing, accessing, and monetizing […]
Cisco Enterprise Networking Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day
It’s Time for a New Kind of Network. One that’s not retrofitted for AI—but purpose-built for it. Designed to handle the scale, speed, complexity, and security demands of the AI era—from the ground up. Cisco’s next generation of switching, routing, and wireless devices are purpose-built to support any customer’s AI transformation. Built for campus, branch, […]
Cisco Data Center Networking Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Cisco AI Cluster: Design, Automation, and Visibility for Unified and Consistent Operations The era of AI is transforming data centers, making advanced networks more essential than ever. To meet the demands of dynamic and distributed workloads, Cisco delivers flexible, scalable, and high-performance networking solutions purpose-built for AI. Join us at AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 […]
What Would You Send a Cloud Scout to Fix with SOUTHWORKS
This segment grounds the idea in practice. We’ll examine how embedded engineers have helped product teams go beyond reactive fixes — from automating post-mortems to co-designing self-healing infrastructure and predictive testing frameworks. The focus is on what changes when teams own reliability together: faster iteration, fewer handoffs, and more precise success metrics. We’ll close with […]
Demonstrating AI-Assisted Development for Leading European Streaming Service with SOUTHWORKS
A Cloud Scou is a forward-deployed engineer who joins the product team to co-own reliability, scalability, and evolution. Drawing from the Forward-Deployed Engineer for SR and AI-Managed DevCrew models, Scouts act as both architectural advisors and implementers — blending human judgment with AI-driven companions to build, test, and tune cloud-native systems. We walk through how […]
Cloud Scouts are Embedded (Human) Builders for the Cloud Native Frontier with SOUTHWORKS
Most SRE teams were designed to ensure uptime, not to evolve products. They monitor systems but often lack the context to influence architecture or design. This segment examines why proximity — being part of the product team — is what transforms reliability into progress. When engineers operate as embedded partners, they surface deeper insights, close […]
Cisco AI Networking Vision and Operational Strategies by Arun Annavarapu
Arun Annavarapu, Director of Product Management for Cisco’s Data Center Networking Group, opened the presentation by framing the massive industry shift towards AI. He noted that the evolution from LLMs to agentic AI and edge inferencing creates an AI continuum that places unprecedented demands on the underlying infrastructure. The network is the key component, tasked […]