AI-Ready Data Centers

• One of the strongest focuses of Cisco Live 2025 was on transforming data center infrastructure to

handle the massive demands of AI workloads.

• Cisco unveiled a series of innovations – spanning hardware, software, and partnerships – to make

modern data centers “AI-ready”: capable of supporting distributed AI training clusters, large-

scale inference, and all the data movement those require, securely and efficiently.

• These announcements recognize that in the AI era, high-bandwidth, low-latency networking

and seamless integration between compute and network are paramount in both cloud and on-

premises data centers.

We breakdown the following topics as part of this episode:

Unified Nexus Dashboard for Fabric Management

High-Performance AI Networking (Cisco Silicon + NVIDIA Integration)

Expanded Cisco AI Pods (Validated AI Infrastructure Blocks)