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Accelerate AI innovation with Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA

Get the secure, scalable, and high-performance AI infrastructure you need to accelerate the delivery of trusted and transformative AI applications.

Security first, with end-to-end observability

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA protects the entire AI stack end to end, covering AI software, workloads, and infrastructure. With built-in security and real-time observability, it helps ensure AI stack runs with confidence and trust.

Networking your way

Experience top-tier connectivity for AI workloads, now available with your choice of Cisco or NVIDIA Spectrum™-X Ethernet for the first time.

High-performance compute and storage

Get the industry-leading infrastructure you need to meet the processing demands of AI. Deploy full-stack server and storage infrastructure and management from Cisco, NVIDIA, and leading AI storage vendors.

Streamlined development and deployment 

Take advantage of NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Run:ai, cloud-native software that accelerates development and deployment of production-grade, end-to-end generative AI pipelines.

Achieve business outcomes with key AI use cases

Customer support resolution

Resolve issues faster and improve first-contact resolution. Empower representatives to quickly find accurate answers from internal sources like knowledge bases and past tickets. 

Employee onboarding and training

Get new employees up and running faster. Let them ask AI agents questions to learn processes, policies, or technical systems.

Sales enablement

Finding information on pricing, compliance, or objection handling can be a chore. With AI-based chat, sales representatives can get real-time answers and meet customer expectations effectively—fast.

Self-service portals

Speed problem resolution and let human agents focus on complex requests. Give customers AI copilots through help centers and portals so they can get context-aware answers from vetted support content.

Marketing content generation

Content marketing just got easier. Use chat-based assistants to draft, edit, and publish content across channels. Great for blogs, emails, social media, product descriptions, and SEO-friendly web copy.

Code generation and developer tasks

Help engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams save time and improve accuracy. Give them AI-powered assistants to write, debug, refactor, and document code. 

Documentation and article creation

Dealing with a backlog of documentation requests from customers? Product and support teams can generate content like release notes and guides using AI copilots drawing from codebases and support tickets.

Personalized content at scale

Boost campaign performance and maximize ROI. Marketers can generate myriad variations of ads, landing pages, or emails using AI assistants that pull customer data and apply approved templates. 

Automated customer support

Make it easier on the customer support team. Let customers use AI chatbots to solve common requests, like order tracking, password resets, or product questions—on any channel, at any time. 

Lead qualification and sales support

Want to boost lead quality and conversations, and improve customer experience? Virtual agents can help your customers explore products, align to interest, and get fast-tracked to sales at the right time.

HR and IT virtual assistants

Enhance employee productivity and cut HR and IT tickets. Give employees access to friendly internal chatbots to request time off, reset passwords, or find company policies.

Tailored onboarding and product guidance

Self-serve products come with a risk of churn and user frustration. The right AI assistant can offer contextual tips and answers along the user journey.

Digital twins

Allow for testing, optimization, and predictive analysis without affecting the physical operations for manufacturing, smart cities, and energy systems. Use real-time, interactive 3D models to simulate, monitor, and optimize operations.

Video analytics

Raw footage isn’t insight. AI can transform video into actionable data for security teams, city planners, and operations managers in public or enterprise spaces.

Imaging and diagnostics

Better imaging equals better outcomes. Computer vision can enhance medical imaging for faster diagnoses, early disease detection, and better radiologist support.

Real-time multilingual customer support

Language shouldn’t be a barrier. Let generative AI instantly translate chats, emails, and tickets while empowering global teams to support users in any language.

Multilingual content localization

Lost in translation? Not anymore. Marketers can use AI to localize content and product documentation while maintaining the company’s brand voice and scaling for global reach.

Internal knowledge base translation

Knowledge is power—if you can read it. Use generative AI to overcome language barriers and translate internal documents and training materials to support global teams.

Voice transcription and translation

Everyone deserves to be heard—and understood. Foster collaboration by using AI to transcribe and translate meetings in real time for inclusive and clear communication.

Fraud detection

Fraud is a pattern and AI can see it. Teams managing risk and compliance across banking, insurance, and online commerce can use AI to catch threats early and keep legitimate activity flowing.

Churn prediction

Act before customers leave. Marketing teams can spot early signs of churn by using AI, so they can launch personalized retention campaigns before it’s too late.

Demand forecasting

Too much or too little can cost you when it comes to inventory, staffing, and logistics. Empower agile decisions across the board by using AI to predict demand shifts in real time.

Predictive maintenance

Don’t wait for machines to fail. AI can use sensor and usage data to spot early warning signs, so you can act fast. You’ll minimize downtime and maintenance costs and extend equipment life.

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Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA

A modular reference design that combines high-performance AI infrastructure with full-stack security and observability. Cisco AI PODs form the AI infrastructure building blocks for the Secure AI Factory. 

The components of a Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA

AI software

NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Run:ai

Cloud-native software tools, libraries, frameworks, dynamic GPU resource allocation, AI workload scheduling, and production-ready models for AI deployments.  

Security

Security

Secure AI models, applications, workloads, and infrastructure with Cisco AI Defense integrated with NVIDIA AI, Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall, and Splunk Enterprise Security TDIR Platform.

Observability

Splunk Observability

Enables visibility into the health, performance, and consumption of critical AI infrastructure components, helping to ensure the full AI stack operates as intended.

Compute

Cisco Servers - Unified Computing System (UCS)

Cisco UCS® Servers based on NVIDIA HGX, MGX, and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition.

Networking

Data center switching

Your network, your way: network infrastructure powered by Cisco Data Center switching and NVIDIA Spectrum-X.

Storage

Cisco and NVIDIA-certified storage partners

Choice of high performance and scalable storage from partners such as Hitachi Vantara, NetApp, Nutanix NUS, Pure Storage, VAST Data.

Kubernetes Platform

Container management software

Choice of Kubernetes Platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift, Nutanix NKP, or upstream open-source Kubernetes.

Cisco AI PODs deployment options

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AI PODs with on-prem network management

Modular, pre-validated infrastructure with Cisco Nexus Dashboard, full-stack buy and deploy, backed by Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs).

UCS X-Series Modular System

AI PODs with cloud management

Turnkey infrastructure with full-stack buy and deploy. Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric for cloud-managed networking, and Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI for cloud-managed infrastructure.

Cisco AI Defense

Safeguard the development and usage of AI applications so your enterprise can advance its AI initiatives with confidence.

Learn more about our joint innovations

Game-changing Cisco-NVIDIA collaboration

From enhanced performance to secure fabric capabilities, this integrated system is tailored for large-scale AI workloads.

Cisco and NVIDIA advance security for enterprise AI factories

Cisco and NVIDIA are helping set a new standard for secure, scalable and high-performance enterprise AI.

AI infrastructure that aligns with business goals

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA offers tailored AI solutions for every stage of your journey.

Close the AI infrastructure readiness gap

Enterprise AI demands more than GPUs. Cisco delivers integrated, secure, and scalable infrastructure solutions.


Secure AI Factory resources

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI Enterprise Reference Architecture (RA), compliant with NVIDIA Enterprise RA

Cisco Enterprise RA with Cisco Nexus 9000 switches, compliant with NVIDIA Enterprise RA

State of AI Security report from Cisco

Cisco AI PODs