This week at Mobile World Congress 2025, Cisco unveiled expansions to its Agile Services Networking solution, a move to accelerate AI deployments and monetization for service providers.
Cisco notes how the Agile Services Networking solution can help customers build and operate AI networks with a sophisticated architecture that leverages Silicon One routing and converged IP/optics under one digital roof.
Arelion, Lumen, and Reliance Jio are already leveraging the software. Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, also added that these “technical breakthroughs are just beginning to translate into new experiences for consumers and applications for businesses that will reshape how the world works and connects.”
Patel explained:
This shift presents massive opportunities for service providers to grow their businesses and reduce costs by modernizing their infrastructure for AI. Cisco is perfectly positioned to help service providers monetize these new revenue streams, and our Agile Services Networking delivers the silicon, systems, and software innovation they need to thrive.
New platform innovations include ThousandEyes Connected Devices, which offers service providers improved visibility into subscriber experiences and covers home and off-network services.
Additionally, Provider Connectivity Assurance is an AI-powered user experience platform that enhances the performance of mobile service provider networks. This Agile Services Networking feature enables service providers to improve user experiences, reduce congestion, maximize speed, and dynamically adjust spectrum usage via real-time traffic insights and predictive demand intelligence.
Cisco, NVIDIA Unite for Industry-Leading AI Acceleration
Cisco and NVIDIA recently expanded their partnership to accelerate enterprise AI projects utilizing each company’s extensive data centre networks. This development follows their collaboration to optimize the Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric with AI features.
Cisco’s Silicon One product has now been integrated with NVIDIA SuperNICs and is joining the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform. This collaboration marks NVIDIA’s first and currently exclusive partner silicon solution integrated into the Spectrum-X network.
In addition, Cisco is developing a framework that combines NVIDIA Spectrum silicon with its proprietary operating system software to enhance back-end connectivity and industry interoperability.
Cisco has ambitious plans for this partnership, focusing on increasing investments in cross-portfolio innovations. This initiative addresses common challenges such as congestion management and load balancing, ultimately enabling faster AI deployments.
Cisco is intensifying its focus on AI. Earlier this year, the company announced two major security products during its AI Summit to address the security challenges of rapid infrastructure expansion. The introduction of AI Defense and Hypershield comes when enterprises are increasingly concerned about securing their AI operations at scale.
Scheduled for release in March 2025, AI Defense targets two critical security gaps in enterprise AI adoption. For developers, it provides automated testing for AI models, examining them for hundreds of potential safety and security vulnerabilities. Additionally, it offers continuous runtime validation against threats such as prompt injection and denial-of-service attacks.
