How Jeetu Patel Made Cisco Unrecognizable
Network World, Monday, June 15th, 2026
Under CPO Jeetu Patel, Cisco transforms from fragmented products into a unified, AI-native infrastructure platform.
Cisco's Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel delivered on his 24-month promise to make the company "unrecognizable," repositioning it from a holding company of separate products into a unified, AI-native infrastructure platform.
The transformation centers on Cloud Control as a management plane spanning networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration, integrating these with one login and enabling human staff and AI agents to collaborate in shared data environments.
Key initiatives include Cisco IQ for customer experience, Secure Networking with quantum-safe capabilities, and Multicloud Fabric for managed cloud connectivity. The shift changes how enterprises manage infrastructure, demanding new AI governance skills while reducing historical deployment complexity.