Overview
- Cisco introduced the N9100 Series data center switches built on Nvidia Spectrum-X silicon, delivering 51.2 Tbps with a choice of NX-OS or SONiC and an NCP-compliant reference architecture, with orders expected before year-end and general availability slated for early 2026.
- Cisco said Nexus Hyperfabric AI will be orderable in November 2025 to automate fabric design, generate cabling plans, and guide installation, cutting AI cluster deployment from months to weeks.
- A new Cisco Cloud Reference Architecture uses Silicon One switches with an add-on license enabling Nvidia Spectrum-X capabilities on Cisco platforms, pairing adaptive routing and congestion-aware load balancing with SuperNIC-based congestion management to improve AI job completion times.
- Under the Secure AI Factory with Nvidia, Cisco highlighted UCS C880A M8 and UCS X-Series systems with HGX B300, Spectrum-X SuperNICs, and BlueField-3 DPUs as the compute foundation for Cisco AI PODs supporting training, fine-tuning and inference.
- Cisco, Nvidia and partners also unveiled what they describe as an AI-native wireless stack for 6G, positioning an American AI-RAN approach for future mobile and pre-6G applications.