AI Has Escaped Your Datacenter Presented By Cisco
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
AI has driven your datacenter designs and is now moving outwards through your whole network. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Lee Peterson from Cisco discussing AI and networks with Andy Banta, Jack Poller, and Alastair Cooke.
The discussion explores how AI is 'escaping the data center' and becoming pervasive across the network, necessitating a dual focus on 'networking for AI' and 'AI for networking.' The former involves building robust, high-performance, and secure infrastructure, particularly at the edge, to support AI workloads like real-time inference.