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Cisco and NVIDIA: Strengthening AI and Security Partnerships

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Here’s my take

This announcement is more tangible than the initial collaboration announcement back in February 2024. That announcement felt like an “us too” moment. Now with a mutual agreement to support Cisco’s Silicon One with NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking platform and Cisco is committed to supporting NVIDIAs Spectrum silicon with Cisco’s operating system.

This announcement means that there will be joint engineering to support heterogenous environment’s with performant and a determinant outcome enterprises expect from us. The added value of a heterogenous environment, it limits exposure to external threats which are increasingly on the rise seeking exploits to LLMs, supported by large enterprises like Meta.

Part of Cisco’s AI Security strategy is a software named, “AI Defense “ working to set guardrails and protection for enterprise to use these open source LLMs. The future of AI is supporting open ecosystems and partnerships. 

Cisco is focused on giving customers choice. Cisco’s AI PODs are focused on💡inferencing of AI (getting the model to produce an outcome). As models evolve to multistep reasoning, breaking down a complex request into multiple steps and in many cases showing their work to the user, there is a significant scaling law that requires more compute. Often referred to as test-time compute. Gemini 2.0 Flash, DeepSeekR1, o1-mini are examples of multi step reasoning. More reasoning can equate to more accurate responses and is critical for autonomous agents in AI and physical AI.

This also means there is a need for more proficient connectivity. @Johnathan Ross, CEO of Groq, has similar beliefs about test-time compute becoming 100x the expense of AI training. Although Cisco has a compute training offers, 885A and 845A, there are very few organizations that will invest in training at scale to create their own foundational model, rather they will augment the open source models with their own domain knowledge, transfer learning, and agentic AI.

Take a moment to broaden your view outside of AI and into Security. Not to far off and possibly now, with Microsoft’s release of Majorana we will be in a post quantum era. This era will require a network that can support, adapt, respond and withstand a post quantum era. Since Cisco’s Silicon One will be supported in NVIDIAs Spectrum switch, Cisco has essentially a kernel space for use to protect at the kernal level. Cisco’s acquisition of Isovalant can enable a distributed, highly secure fabric at that kernal level. It will be a requirement to have security so tightly coupled with the network and Cisco is in the best position to support that requirement with the release of N9300 data processing unit switch. 

    Keep exploring and happy engineering!

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    Cisco Live 2023 – Top 6 announcement

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    Cisco Networking Cloud
    Overview: With simplification at the core of Cisco’s customer-focused momentum, the new Networking Cloud vision sets out how Cisco plans to deliver a single platform experience for seamlessly managing all networking domains. Customers need to shift to a powerful and intelligent platform that can proactively manage the network, eliminate silos, and reduce human workload. At Cisco Live, Cisco will introduce the steps underway to deliver this capability, driven by more unified and consistent experiences, smarter tools, and a simplified portfolio to achieve more robust customer outcomes. News Release: Cisco Showcases Vision to Simplify Networking and Securely Connect the World

    Cisco Security Cloud
    Overview: Cisco is delivering on its promise of the AI-driven Cisco Security Cloud to simplify cybersecurity and empower people to do their best work from anywhere regardless of the increasingly sophisticated threat landscape. Cisco will announce Cisco Secure Access (a security service edge, SSE, solution) that offers frictionless access across any location, any device, and any application through one platform. Cisco is also previewing the first generative AI capabilities in the Security Cloud, including a generative AI-powered Policy Assistant that enables Security and IT administrators to describe granular security policies and evaluate how to best implement them across different aspects of their security infrastructure, and a SOC Assistant that will support the Security Operations Center (SOC) to detect and respond to threats faster. Cisco is also announcing the Secure Firewall 4200 which provides seamless connected experiences at the office or on the road, alongside Cisco Multicloud Defense, which leads the way to security in any environment. News Release: Cisco Shows Breakthrough Innovation Towards AI-First Security Cloud

    Full Stack Observability Platform & DEM Overview: Cisco will announce the launch of a new Full-Stack Observability (FSO) Platform, a vendor-agnostic solution that harnesses the power of the company’s full portfolio. The Cisco FSO Platform is focused on OpenTelemetry and is anchored on Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces (MELT), enabling businesses to seamlessly collect and analyze MELT data generated by any source. The Cisco FSO Platform is also designed as a unified, extensible platform, allowing developers to build their own observability solutions, empowering an ecosystem of customers and partners. News Release: Cisco Launches Full Stack Observability Platform

    Cloud Native Application Security
    Overview: Announced today, Cisco’s Cloud Native Application Security solution, Panoptica, will now provide end- to-end lifecycle protection for cloud native application environments, from development to deployment to production. Panoptica will include an integrated and simplified visual dashboard experience with seamless scalability across clusters and multicloud environments. This will allow teams to secure APIs as well serverless, containerized, and Kubernetes environments holistically, with less complexity and more efficiency. News Release: Cisco Accelerates Application Security Strategy with Panoptica

    Generative AI – Security & Collaboration
    Overview: Cisco will announce it is reimagining the way people work with new, powerful generative AI technology. Cisco will harness large language models (LLMs) across its Security and Collaboration portfolios to help organizations drive productivity and simplicity for the workforce.
    News Release: Cisco Unveils Next-Gen Solutions that Empower Security and Productivity with Generative AI

    Sustainability
    Overview: Cisco is unveiling new partnerships within sustainable data centers, and advanced energy monitoring with Webex Control Hub. In addition, Cisco will unveil new messaging that speaks to its own sustainability journey and the desire to accelerate total sustainable transformation.
    Blog: Simplifying How Customers Unleash the Power of Our Platforms

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