Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel is turning Cisco from a sprawling holding company of dashboards into a unified, AI-native infrastructure platform.
Cloud Control is a consolidated management plane, but it's not a passive dashboard. Policy and identity are built directly into the control path. It's a sharp departure from the days when a dashboard’s job was mostly to display inform
Cisco’s revamped CCNA and CCIE certifications are a skills blueprint for AI-era networking, where automation, observability, and human judgment converge.
Cisco's momentum has implications for enterprises with plans to refresh campus networks and boost their AI readiness.
It's not too early to start planning for Wi-Fi 8. New features include non-primary channel access, seamless mobility domain (SMD) roaming, intermediate modulation and coding scheme (MCS) levels, and dynamic power-save modes.
Churchill Downs' network refresh highlights how standardization, AI-driven security, and automation allow enterprise engineers to manage extreme demand peaks while transitioning legacy systems.
AI agents and physical AI are no longer abstract risks. They’re changing how routers, switches, OT gear, and cloud paths must be monitored, segmented, and defended in real time.
By bulking up AI observability with Galileo and identity with Astrix, Cisco is repositioning its secure network as the control plane for the agentic era. It's a calculated bet that the company best known for building the internet's infrastr
At the OFC 2026 conference, Nokia showed how its Infinera acquisition and vertical integration provide the optical infrastructure needed to address the widening gap between massive AI compute and networking.
Application delivery controllers, VPN gateways, and network management platforms are the de facto brokers of trust, and that makes them prime targets for attackers.
