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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.
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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.