Cisco expands Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA for the rack-scale era
Cisco’s full-stack architecture adds massive AI computing power, offering an NVIDIA Cloud Partner compliant reference architecture built for surging neocloud and sovereign cloud demand.
AI your way, with Cisco and NVIDIA
Accelerate the delivery of trusted agentic and physical AI applications from core to edge with Cisco and NVIDIA.
Security
Distributed security, fused into every layer of the stack - AI models, agents, workloads, and infrastructure
Scalability
High-performance, enterprise AI infrastructure from core to edge
Simplicity
Deployment and operations simplicity & flexibility
Innovation in action
Core42
Scaling the AI intelligence grid
See how Core42 uses Cisco networking to power a distributed AI factory and solve complex data gravity challenges.
Cirrascale
Accelerating private AI adoption
Find out how Cirrascale leverages Cisco UCS and high-performance networking to deliver secure, dedicated AI compute.
Rafay Systems
Self-Service Infrastructure for AI Factory
Rafay Systems builds on Cisco AI infrastructure to deliver self-service compute using Cisco networking and eBPF security for multi-tenant AI workload management.
Red Hat
From AI experiment to production-ready
Hear Red Hat's Jeff Winn on how Cisco and Red Hat secure and scale generative AI—bridging development and day-two operations with validated design patterns from core to edge.
Customer support resolution
Resolve issues faster and improve first-contact resolution. Empower representatives to quickly find accurate answers from internal sources like knowledge bases and past tickets.
Employee onboarding and training
Get new employees up and running faster. Let them ask AI agents questions to learn processes, policies, or technical systems.
Sales enablement
Finding information on pricing, compliance, or objection handling can be a chore. With AI-based chat, sales representatives can get real-time answers and meet customer expectations effectively—fast.
Self-service portals
Speed problem resolution and let human agents focus on complex requests. Give customers AI copilots through help centers and portals so they can get context-aware answers from vetted support content.
Marketing content generation
Content marketing just got easier. Use chat-based assistants to draft, edit, and publish content across channels. Great for blogs, emails, social media, product descriptions, and SEO-friendly web copy.
Code generation and developer tasks
Help engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams save time and improve accuracy. Give them AI-powered assistants to write, debug, refactor, and document code.
Documentation and article creation
Dealing with a backlog of documentation requests from customers? Product and support teams can generate content like release notes and guides using AI copilots drawing from codebases and support tickets.
Personalized content at scale
Boost campaign performance and maximize ROI. Marketers can generate myriad variations of ads, landing pages, or emails using AI assistants that pull customer data and apply approved templates.
Automated customer support
Make it easier on the customer support team. Let customers use AI chatbots to solve common requests, like order tracking, password resets, or product questions—on any channel, at any time.
Lead qualification and sales support
Want to boost lead quality and conversations, and improve customer experience? Virtual agents can help your customers explore products, align to interest, and get fast-tracked to sales at the right time.
HR and IT virtual assistants
Enhance employee productivity and cut HR and IT tickets. Give employees access to friendly internal chatbots to request time off, reset passwords, or find company policies.
Tailored onboarding and product guidance
Self-serve products come with a risk of churn and user frustration. The right AI assistant can offer contextual tips and answers along the user journey.
Digital twins
Allow for testing, optimization, and predictive analysis without affecting the physical operations for manufacturing, smart cities, and energy systems. Use real-time, interactive 3D models to simulate, monitor, and optimize operations.
Video analytics
Raw footage isn't insight. AI can transform video into actionable data for security teams, city planners, and operations managers in public or enterprise spaces.
Imaging and diagnostics
Better imaging equals better outcomes. Computer vision can enhance medical imaging for faster diagnoses, early disease detection, and better radiologist support.
Real-time multilingual customer support
Language shouldn't be a barrier. Let generative AI instantly translate chats, emails, and tickets while empowering global teams to support users in any language.
Multilingual content localization
Lost in translation? Not anymore. Marketers can use AI to localize content and product documentation while maintaining the company's brand voice and scaling for global reach.
Internal knowledge base translation
Knowledge is power—if you can read it. Use generative AI to overcome language barriers and translate internal documents and training materials to support global teams.
Voice transcription and translation
Everyone deserves to be heard—and understood. Foster collaboration by using AI to transcribe and translate meetings in real time for inclusive and clear communication.
Fraud detection
Fraud is a pattern and AI can see it. Teams managing risk and compliance across banking, insurance, and online commerce can use AI to catch threats early and keep legitimate activity flowing.
Churn prediction
Act before customers leave. Marketing teams can spot early signs of churn by using AI, so they can launch personalized retention campaigns before it's too late.
Demand forecasting
Too much or too little can cost you when it comes to inventory, staffing, and logistics. Empower agile decisions across the board by using AI to predict demand shifts in real time.
Predictive maintenance
Don't wait for machines to fail. AI can use sensor and usage data to spot early warning signs, so you can act fast. You'll minimize downtime and maintenance costs and extend equipment life.
Components of a Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
Compute
Cisco Accelerated Compute Portfolio
NVIDIA HGX, MGX or RTX PRO™ Blackwell Server Edition based GPU Servers, NVL72 Rack-Scale Systems, enabled by Cisco and Supermicro. Cisco Unified Edge with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. Unified fleet management with Cisco Intersight, integrated with Cisco Cloud Control.
Networking
Data center switching
Your network, your way: Cisco AI Networking powered by Cisco data center switches based on Cisco Silicon One or NVIDIA Spectrum-X switch silicon.
Security
Cisco Security
Secure AI models, agents, applications, workloads, and infrastructure with Cisco AI Defense integrated with NVIDIA AI, Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, and Splunk Enterprise Security TDIR platform.
Observability
Splunk Observability
Enables visibility into the health, performance, and consumption of critical AI infrastructure and AI agents.
AI software
NVIDIA AI Enterprise and ISV ecosystem
Cloud-native software tools, libraries, frameworks, dynamic GPU resource allocation, AI workload scheduling, and open source models. Red Hat AI Factory software, Palantir Ontology, and Nutanix Enterprise AI are also supported.
Kubernetes Platform
Container management software
Choice of Kubernetes platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift, Nutanix NKP, or upstream open-source Kubernetes.
Storage
Cisco and NVIDIA-certified storage partners
Choice of high-performance and scalable storage from partners such as Hitachi Vantara, NetApp, Nutanix, Everpure, or VAST Data.
AgenticOps
Cisco Cloud Control
Unified operations platform that brings together compute, networking, security, observability, etc. into one environment with a single login, unified inventory, and real-time topology.
Deployment agility and flexibility
AI PODs with on-premises network management
Modular, pre-validated infrastructure with Cisco Nexus Dashboard, full-stack buy and deploy, backed by Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs).
AI PODs with cloud management
Unified infrastructure with full-stack buy and deploy. Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric for cloud-managed networking or for cloud-managed infrastructure.
Build your own
Buy and deploy individual Cisco and partner products, as needed, to build your Secure AI Factory.
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Cisco Secure AI Factory: Powering agentic AI at scale
Cisco, Palantir, and NVIDIA have partnered to streamline secure, sovereign AI deployments for government and enterprise
Cisco gives Secure AI Factory a secure multi-agent edge up
Learn more about how Cisco is extending Secure AI Factory from the core to the edge, providing a unified architecture that powers and secures partner-driven multi-agent deployments across the entire enterprise.
The rise of distributed AI requires modernization on-premises and at the edge
Accelerate AI initiatives with Cisco Secure AI Factory, integrating NVIDIA and Red Hat technologies to modernize and secure AI infrastructure across data centers and edge locations.
Unifying operations with Cisco Cloud Control
Cisco Cloud Control unifies your Cisco data center estate into one platform for cross-domain visibility, faster troubleshooting, and AI-powered operations.
