Cisco Updates Networking Products in Bid to Tap AI-Fueled Demand
With data-transfer bottlenecks threatening to slow AI systems, Cisco aims to speed things up
Cisco is updating its networking and security lineup to capitalize on artificial intelligence spending.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergCisco Systems Inc. is updating its networking and security products to make artificial intelligence networks speedier and more secure, part of a broader push to capitalize on the AI spending boom.
A new generation of switches — networking equipment that links computer systems — will offer a 10-fold improvement in performance, the company said on Tuesday. That will help prevent AI applications from suffering bottlenecks when transferring data, Cisco said.