The expanded partnership aims to give organisations flexibility and choice as they look to meet the demand of AI workloads for high-performance, low-latency, highly power-efficient connectivity within – and between – data centres, clouds, and users.
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AI Workloads and High-Performance Connectivity
A robust and scalable AI ecosystem is key to driving the transformative power of AI," said Hans Vestberg, chairman and CEO of Verizon. "This expanded partnership between Cisco and NVIDIA, just like our Verizon AI Connect strategy and solutions, builds towards accelerating and enabling resource-intensive AI workloads at the Edge of the network."
NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Networking Platform
The NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform based on Cisco and NVIDIA silicon will form the foundation for many enterprise AI workloads.
The goal of the expanded partnership is to allow customers to optimise their AI infrastructure investments with a common architecture, using their existing management tools and processes, spanning front and back-end networks.
Removing Barriers for Enterprises to Deploy AI
"Enterprises are under immense pressure to deploy AI quickly and effectively, and many leaders struggle to justify the investment while balancing the risks," said Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO, Cisco. "Together, Cisco and NVIDIA are partnering to remove barriers for customers and ensure they can optimise their infrastructure investments to unlock the power of AI."
The Future of AI with the Cisco Nvidia Partnership
"Advancing at lightspeed, AI will revolutionise every industry," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA. "NVIDIA Spectrum-X is Ethernet enhanced and supercharged for AI. Together with Cisco's enterprise platforms and global reach, we can help companies worldwide build state-of-the-art NVIDIA infrastructure as they race to transform with AI."
Access to Advanced Features with Cisco and NVIDIA
Customers will have access to NVIDIA Spectrum-X platform such as adaptive routing, telemetry, congestion control and low latency, as well as Cisco's broader networking, security, and digital resilience portfolio, including the Splunk data platform.
Moving Data Center Projects from Prototype to Deployment
In addition, the Cisco Nvidia partnership will help move enterprise data centre Ethernet AI projects from prototype to full deployment, which would otherwise be limited to public cloud or SaaS services.
