#infrastructure modernization

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Cisco Research Highlights Major Infrastructure Shift with AI Integration

Cisco’s AI-Powered Network Revolution: Transforming Infrastructure for the Future

In a rapidly evolving technological landscape, Cisco is spearheading a major transformation in network infrastructure through AI integration. Unlike conventional AI applications that focus on consumer products or software automation, Cisco’s approach revolves around building an “AI-native infrastructure” designed to meet the complex demands of enterprise networks and next-gen AI workloads. This shift is not just a technological upgrade but a strategic move to redefine how businesses operate, secure their data, and deliver seamless digital experiences worldwide. This article explores Cisco’s vision, innovations, and the broad impact of this infrastructure revolution.

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Redefining Network Architecture with AI-Native Foundations

AI-Driven Security: Protecting the Future of Enterprise Networks

Enhancing Network Visibility and Automation Through AI Operations

Cisco’s AI Infrastructure Investment

Empowering Businesses and Communities Worldwide

The Path Forward for AI-Enabled Infrastructure

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Redefining Network Architecture with AI-Native Foundations

Cisco’s groundbreaking research highlights the urgency of rebuilding network infrastructure to support the exponential growth of AI, IoT, and cloud applications. Rather than merely adding AI tools on top of existing systems, Cisco is pioneering networks architected from the ground up to handle the intense compute, bandwidth, and latency requirements of AI workloads. This includes the development of custom Ethernet fabrics optimized for AI/ML clusters using NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, enabling faster data throughput and real-time analytics.

The initiative began as early as 2023 when Cisco started investing heavily in research and partnerships aimed at designing hardware and software ecosystems that would not only support but accelerate AI adoption. By 2025, Cisco publicly launched a suite of AI-native network products, showcasing how networks can dynamically adapt to data flows, improve reliability, and automate routine tasks.

This architecture matters because traditional networks struggle under the weight of modern AI and cloud demands, often causing bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities. Cisco’s AI-native infrastructure aims to eliminate these challenges by offering scalability, resilience, and intelligent automation, which in turn drives business efficiency and innovation.

AI-Driven Security: Protecting the Future of Enterprise Networks

Security is a core pillar of Cisco’s AI strategy. As cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated, Cisco leverages AI and machine learning to detect anomalies, prevent breaches, and analyze encrypted traffic without compromising privacy. Their AI-powered security platforms use behavioral analysis to identify threats that traditional systems might miss and enable automatic remediation, reducing response times drastically.

Cisco introduced this integrated security approach alongside their AI-native infrastructure, positioning it as an essential tool for enterprises transitioning to hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This strategy aligns with Cisco’s Zero Trust architecture, which assumes breaches will happen and continuously validates every device and user.

This AI-empowered security not only protects sensitive data but also ensures business continuity, making it a critical enabler for companies worldwide to embrace digital transformation with confidence. It is particularly beneficial for industries like finance, healthcare, and government sectors where data protection is paramount.

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[technology-and-beyond]

How to Achieve Seamless Cloud Migration Success

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[modernistdelights]

The rather pompously named, but still pleasant, Hadrian Bridge, over Newcastle's Central Motorway.

This may be a good time to shout out Newcastle University's Co-Curate website, which has come in extremely useful when factchecking (believe it or not, I do bother), and comes with a very rich library of pictures of buildings in the city, which came in useful when researching my one building across three eras post a few weeks ago.

[miamaimania]

"Kawazu Nanadaru Loop Bridge" ~ Shizuoka, Japan by Unknown ⟲ Circular road loops seven stories above forest floor

[backinmypjs]

So there's a kid in a hole and everyone knows about it. It's fine, probably. It's not like the kid is being actively tortured or anything. Lots of cities have a kid in a hole, it's pretty normal.

How do they treat the kid where you're from? Oh, you've got a museum for all the past kids? That's cool, I guess. We do an annual gratitude parade around the city, big festival. I hear some places do still torture their kid. We're somewhere in the middle...making progress, haha!

I was a HOLY volunteer, actually, great program. Harboring Omelas' Lost Youth - they send us to the hole with supplies, you know, meal packs to drop down, meds, and we get trained in cognitive behavioral therapy for conversations with the kid to keep em well-adjusted. I even got a scholarship for doing it. Really makes you appreciate all the privileges of city life when you get back! I'd love to visit the hole again, though. Kid probably remembers me!

Anyway, did you see the news about the city far away? My cousin's in the service, he got assigned to the calvary there. He doesn't get much time away from the group to talk with any of us, but on the news they said the city far away is torturing the kid in the hole all the time. Awful, right? Hard to believe all the people there just let it happen, but I'm glad we're doing something about it, showing them a better way, you know. With great power comes great responsibility and all that, haha!

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Poll Winner 5th Round Match Up 1:

These Questions are the winners from the previous iteration.

Please add new suggestions below, if you have them, for future consideration.

[queen-mabs-revenge]

I'm just saying maybe you shouldn't talk about the Luddites if you actually refuse to engage with their historical struggle and the reasons for it and instead just perpetuate the bourgeois propaganda about them and somehow act that's the materialist take. get fucking serious please.

[bonvenonvenon]

[lunammoon]

a lot of people have said that the Lich Lords clearly don't do shit since we've never seen or heard from them before and yet they claim to be protecting the veil and while that COULD be correct, I wonder if their role is something simular to like janitors or cybersecurity guys.

Some kind of role where if they do their job right you won't see that they're doing anything at all, but you would ABSOLUTELY notice if they were to stop.

[tilbageidanmark]

The old Kugekhaus (Sphere building) in Dresden. It was built in 1928, and demolished by the Nazis in 1938, for being "Un-German".

[warsofasoiaf]

Could you explain a little more about "non-defense government contracts are much worse" I always hear about defense contracts and bloat but less about others.

A lot of infrastructure contracts and overall handling of infrastructure is riddled with corruption. US ports are lower in efficiency than Tanzania, primarily due to dockworker unions refusing any automation. Road expansion and upkeep are typically closed tender contracts given to political donors, many of which explicitly have provisions in the contract that the contractee cannot be fired solely for poor performance or cost overruns.

The entire contracting process could do with a thorough anti-corruption campaign, defense and non-defense alike. It would never happen though. At least our bureaucratic apparatus isn't as bad as Germany.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[night-for-night]

more construction, jsq, jc, nj - vivitar wide & slim with 400 iso color film - developed at eliz digital & scanned with minolta dimage dual iii

[upmala]

i miss having fiber optic internet. now i have to deal with a stupid 4G home router that can’t even handle two videocalls at the same time. streaming is absolutely out of the question.

[that-wildwolf]

modern aus where the characters are their canon species my beloved. Maybe I want to see turians and rito and elves and shit in a modern setting. maybe I think that's very neat and also incidentally very funny.

[presswoodterryryan]

Understanding America's Iron Dome Initiative

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