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Today, Cisco and Nvidia announced their intention to create a cross-portfolio unified architecture to simplify the building’s AI-Reaid data center network. Nvidia allows Cisco Silicon, combined with Nvidia Supernics, to become part of the Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet Networking platform. Cisco is the only partner silicon included in Nvidia Spectrum-X. Cisco will build a system that combines Nvidia Spectrum Silicon with Cisco operating system software, allowing customers to standardize Cisco networking and Nvidia technology in their data centers simultaneously. This proposed collaboration opens new market opportunities for Cisco by integrating the architecture model between front-end and back-end networks, making it easier to manage a variety of enterprise and cloud provider networks.
San Jose, February 25, 2025 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced plans for an expanded partnership with NVIDIA, providing AI technology solutions to businesses. Companies recognize that AI is essential for growth, but maintain early adoption as they navigate the unique technical complexity and security demands of AI-Reaid data center operations . The expanded partnership aims to meet the demand for AI workloads for high performance, low latency, and highly efficient connectivity between data centers, clouds, users, and between , aims to provide organizations with flexibility and choice.
“A robust and scalable AI ecosystem is key to driving AI’s transformational power,” says Hans Vestberg, chairman and CEO of Verizon. “This partnership between Cisco and Nvidia is built to accelerate and enable resource-intensive AI workloads at the edge of the network, similar to the Verizon AI Connect strategy and solutions.”
Based on Cisco and Nvidia Silicon, the Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet Networking platform forms the basis for many enterprise AI workloads. By enabling interoperability between the two companies’ networking architectures, both companies prioritize customer needs for simplified, full-stack solutions. The goal of the expanded partnership is to enable existing management tools and processes to optimize AI infrastructure investments with a common architecture spanning front and backend networks.
“Companies are under great pressure to deploy AI quickly and effectively, and many leaders struggle to justify their investments while balancing risk,” says Cisco Chairman and CEO, Cisco Chairman and CEO. Chuck Robbins said. “Together, Cisco and Nvidia are partnering to remove barriers to customers and optimize infrastructure investments to unlock the power of AI.”
“AI moving forward with Lightspeed will revolutionize any industry,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “Nvidia Spectrum-x is now being enhanced and supercharged with AI’s Ethernet. Together with Cisco’s enterprise platform and global reach, we will build cutting-edge NVIDIA infrastructure where companies around the world compete to transform AI. I can help you with it.”
By integrating both Cisco and Nvidia technologies to make it easier to standardize, customers will be able to provide current and future technological advances in the NVIDIA Spectrum-X platform, including adaptive routing, telemetry, congestion control, and low latency, as well as Cisco’s It benefits from current and future technological advancements, including broader networking. , a security and digital resilience portfolio including Splunk Data Platform. As businesses develop AI capabilities and train their models with their own data, it becomes important to have a comprehensive security strategy.
“World Wide Technology’s long-standing partnership with Cisco and Nvidia has already created cutting-edge AI solutions that drive innovation and business transformation,” says Jim Kavanaugh, co-founder and CEO of World Wide Technology. It states. “By leveraging the strengths of Cisco’s deep expertise in data centers and NVIDIA’s advanced AI technology, we provide unparalleled value to our customers and confidently navigate the complexities of AI adoption. We are poised to help you do that.”
Cisco and Nvidia: Accelerating AI workload adoption in enterprises
The two companies are committed to bringing new levels of innovation to accelerate the adoption of AI within the enterprise. The aim of this deeper partnership, focusing on simplifying deployment and operations, improves workload performance and visibility, is to provide the best performance Ethernet solutions available for AI workloads, and NVIDIA’s Spectrum – Extending the X architecture to make Cisco our only partner, including Cisco Silicon One. Silicon supported by Spectrum-X Ethernet Solutions. Additionally, the expanded partnership will help you move from prototypes to full deployments of Ethernet AI projects in your enterprise data center. This is limited to public clouds or SaaS services.
Today, Cisco and Nvidia plan to develop joint solutions for their customers.
Cisco will develop data center switches with the NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet platform. An open ecosystem approach gives customers more choice and flexibility. Organizations can standardize the NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking platform with both Cisco and Nvidia Switch silicon-based architectures, bringing both companies’ industry-leading technology under a single management fabric. Cisco will work with NVIDIA to create and validate enterprise reference architectures based on NVIDIA Cloud Partners (NCPs) and NVIDIA Spectrum X, Cisco Silicon One, Hyperfabric, Nexus, UCS Compute, Optics and other Cisco technologies . Cisco and Nvidia are collaborating and collaborating with the aim of providing the best Ethernet solutions for their customers. Companies plan on continuous collaboration to address key challenges such as congestion management and load balancing to enable customers to scale and ensure AI deployment.
For more information, see the contract perspective of Cisco EVP and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel.
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Cisco plans to enhance its silicon switches to be compatible with the Spectrum-X and Nvidia reference architectures. These updates will be available midway through the 2025 calendar, including existing and upcoming Cisco Nexus, Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric and Cisco UCS products. The timeline for the new Cisco Spectrum switch will be announced at a later date.
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