Cisco announced a suite of AI-driven innovations aimed at helping organizations accelerate secure AI adoption and optimize their infrastructure for the AI era. The new offerings, revealed at Cisco Live, span intelligent workplace networks, AI-powered unified management, data center enhancements, advanced security solutions, and integrated digital resilience tools.
Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer, emphasized Cisco’s role in delivering critical infrastructure tailored for AI-driven workloads, supporting automation and complex problem-solving. Innovations include AI Canvas for real-time collaboration between network and security teams, the Cisco AI Assistant for conversational control, and Cisco Cloud Control — a unified management platform integrating networking, security, and observability.
Patrick Milligan, Ford’s Chief Information Security Officer, highlighted Cisco’s essential contribution to managing AI capabilities across design, engineering, manufacturing, and customer support.
Key highlights include new AI-optimized devices for campus and industrial networks, hybrid mesh firewalls and Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) security enhancements, and partnerships like joining the EPRI Open Power AI Consortium to strengthen critical infrastructure.
Further, Cisco deepened integration with Splunk solutions to boost digital resilience through enhanced visibility into network health and performance, enabling proactive, insight-driven operations.
These innovations position Cisco as a vital enabler for enterprises embracing agentic AI, helping IT teams shift from reactive to autonomous network management while ensuring security and scalability in increasingly complex environments.
