Mass-Scale AI Infrastructure

Build your AI infrastructure—fast

Unlock scalable, high-performance AI with our portfolio of advanced AI infrastructure products and solutions. Power, connect, and secure AI models and workflows for optimal performance.

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Scale with confidence to drive AI success

Achieve maximum performance, efficiency, and resilience. Explore our advanced portfolio to support the needs of the AI lifecycle.

Networking built for scale

Optimize the efficiency and reliability of AI fabrics with ultra-high-speed switching and optics.

AI security everywhere

Leverage continuous AI-native protection that seamlessly integrates with your network fabric as it expands.

Compute optimized for AI

Scale your AI clusters with dense-GPU servers designed to provide the raw power for handling the most demanding AI workloads.

Data Center Interconnect from cloud to edge

Securely connect nearby AI clusters or remote and edge data centers with optical systems and WAN connectivity that work for you.

AI Infrastructure for the Agentic Era

Whether you are building a mass-scale AI data center for pre-training, a large inferencing cluster, or smaller distributed edge clusters—or interconnecting them all—Cisco has you covered.

Cisco portfolio for Mass-Scale AI Infrastructure

Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 Switch

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

Meet the rigorous demands of scalable front-end and back-end Ethernet fabrics with high-performance, power-efficient switches optimized for AI.

Cisco 8712-MOD-M chassis with 4 Modular Port Adapters

Cisco 8000 Series Switches with SONiC

Harness the power of open-source flexibility to meet the customization needs of mass-scale AI data centers with Silicon One-based Cisco 8000 Series Switches.

Cisco Smart Switch N9324C-SE1U

Cisco Smart Switches with DPUs

Reimagine AI data center designs to meet highly adaptive and scalable AI demands with a new class of intelligent networking switches with embedded DPUs.

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Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Stay in control of your front-end and back-end network fabrics—from one place—across data centers and cloud.

Cisco UCS C885A M8 Rack Server

Cisco UCS C885A M8

Meet the most demanding AI workloads with dense-GPU rack servers based on your choice of the NVIDIA HGX platform or other leading GPUs.

Cisco UCS C845A M8 Rack Server

Cisco UCS C845A M8

Utilize flexible configurations across a broad range of AI use cases with these modular rack servers based on the NVIDIA MGX reference architecture.

Cisco Intersight dashboard

Cisco Intersight Management

Deliver resources fast for AI workloads when you operate your Cisco UCS, converged, and hyperconverged infrastructure.

Cisco OSFP transceivers

Cisco OSFP transceivers

Employ Cisco pluggable ultra-high-speed transceiver modules, complying with the OSFP configuration with integrated heat sink for high-density front-end and back-end networks.

Cisco OSFP-800G-DR8 transceiver module

Cisco QSFP-DD transceivers

Maximize switch port densities, data rates, and reliable data transfer with QSFP-DD transceivers ranging from 100G to 800G that optimize thermal management with flexible heatsink designs.

Screen view of Cisco Isovalent platform

Cisco Isovalent platform

Secure your cloud-native and Kubernetes environments with Isovalent’s zero-trust networking and lightweight, highly efficient security tools.

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Cisco Hypershield

Cisco Hypershield delivers a unique, distributed, AI-native, Kubernetes-based security architecture, built specifically for AI workloads and designed to put security wherever it needs to be.

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Cisco AI Defense

Detect the AI assets running in your environment and help ensure that the models and applications are safe and secure across the AI lifecycle.

Cisco Firepower 9300 Series appliance

Cisco secure data center firewalls

Scale to greater workloads with carrier-grade firewalls that protect mass-scale data centers and service provider networks.

Data Center Interconnect Cisco coherent pluggable optics module

DCI with Cisco Coherent Pluggable Optics

Simplify provisioning, operations, performance management, and assurance of data center interconnects, optical networks, and IP layers.

Cisco coherent pluggable optics module

Cisco Coherent Pluggable Optics

Interconnect AI data centers and clusters over dark fiber with industry-standard 400G and 800G metro and long-haul coherent pluggable optics.

Cisco Network Convergence System 1004

Cisco Optical Systems

Interconnect data centers at up to 28 Tbps with the Cisco Network Convergence System series DWDM line systems.

Cisco Agile Services Networking

Cisco Agile Services Networking

Use this network architecture to optimize and simplify connectivity across the complete AI workflow.

Cisco Silicon One architecture

Cisco Silicon One architecture

Meet the demands of scaling for AI with a choice of network devices based on a family of high-performance, feature-rich, and low-power networking silicon.

Cisco Silicon One G200 processor

Cisco Silicon One G200

Build ultra-high-density Ethernet-based AI networks, with switches based on the Cisco Silicon One G200 programmable ASIC.

Prepare your infrastructure for demanding AI workloads

Accelerate AI deployments, simplify operations, and support sustainability initiatives with a modern, secure full stack infrastructure and Cisco Validated Designs.

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