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Making The Case For Cisco N9000 For Front-End & Back-End Networks

Cisco, Thursday, February 12th, 2026

Cisco has done significant work in the past year to upgrade its Nexus data center switching portfolio for the AI era. Cisco N9000 Series Switches have adopted the benefits to include operational resiliency, security, and management features needed to sustain the high demands of today's networking for AI.

Recently I spoke with the Cisco team to learn about the company's work with customers across many different market segments-including the enterprise, telco, neocloud and sovereign cloud markets.

It's clear that Cisco has put its foot on the gas to respond to rapidly emerging needs for AI networking, from back-end networks training to front-end inference.

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