Cisco Enables 'Scale-Across' AI Environments
theCUBE research, Monday, October 13th, 2025
Cisco has unveiled its most powerful and efficient routing platform this week, the Cisco 8223, powered by the company's new Silicon One P200 chip.
The announcement, made ahead of the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, marks a significant step forward in AI-era networking, as hyperscalers and enterprises increasingly face the limits of scaling within single data centers. The 8223 system enables organizations a third dimension of scale called 'scale-across'. The prior two dimensions are 'scale-up' and 'scale-out'. The 'scale-across' architecture securely connects multiple AI clusters across geographically distributed data centers with the requisite performance, programmability, and efficiency.