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.

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Cisco 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.