Networking Infrastructure for AI – Review of Cisco’s Product Announcements at Cisco Live 2025

As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, organizations are ramping up investments in infrastructure capable of supporting a broad spectrum of AI workloads, from training to inference, across data center, cloud, and edge environments. AI is fueling demand for high-performance, low-latency network fabrics, streamlined operations, open, and secure architectures, and infrastructure that is energy efficient and sustainable.

This report comprehensively analyzes Cisco’s networking infrastructure for AI announcements made at Cisco Live 2025. It examines Cisco’s current strategic positioning and highlights key innovations across switches, routers, and access points designed to enable AI-native infrastructure. The report also evaluates how Cisco is addressing key enterprise priorities such as operational simplification, architectural openness, extensibility, and sustainability.

The report is intended to help infrastructure and technology leaders, architects, and ecosystem partners in evaluating Cisco’s portfolio strategy and its alignment with the evolving demands of future-ready, AI-powered enterprise environments.