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Decoder · September 10, 2025 · 60m

Cisco's Bet on AI Infrastructure

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins explains how the networking giant is transforming to serve the AI era, from data center networking to AI-specific security and observability.

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Robbins argues that networking infrastructure is the invisible environment that determines whether AI capabilities can be deployed at scale. The best models are useless without the network to deliver them.
Cisco has survived the dot-com crash, the cloud transition, and the mobile revolution. Robbins draws explicit lessons from this institutional biography to navigate the AI transition.