Cisco Unveils AI-Ready Network Infrastructure at Cisco Live 2025

A Generational Industrial Experience is in Store at Cisco Live San Diego

It's that time of year when industry leaders and innovators gather for a week of collaboration to explore innovation, networking, security, and this year, artificial intelligence (AI). Being in San Diego, connecting with inspiring professionals, and presenting alongside amazing customers like Disney and Planet Farms makes this experience truly unforgettable. The Industrial IoT team is hosting key summits on manufacturing, utilities, and transportation. These conversations fuel our drive to innovate and deliver impactful solutions, making this year a bit more special for the Cisco industrial IoT team. This year at Cisco Live San Diego, the spotlight is on Industrial IoT. With the urgency of cybersecurity, groundbreaking AI use cases, and the growing collaboration between IT and operational technology (OT) teams, Industrial IoT is paving the way for smarter, more secure operations. The Cisco Industrial Networking portfolio is expanding and advancing to tackle these challenges head on. Today, we are announcing a significant expansion of our industrial switching portfolio, the integration of Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) into our new Wi-Fi 7 portfolio, and an AI-based clustering enhancement to Cisco Cyber Vision. Our Industrial Ethernet portfolio is growing with the addition of 19 new rugged switches, featuring everything from IP30 to IP67 PoE and UPoE. Our new industrial switches are purpose-built to address challenges head on. These new switches offer unparalleled PoE flexibility with 4-pair Power over Ethernet (4PPoE), faster uplinks to support the bandwidth demands of industrial AI applications, and a seamless merge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 transport into a single network using fabric technologies -- ensuring scalability and flexibility for your assets, no matter where they are. As a product manager, there's nothing more rewarding than hearing direct feedback from customers. It's through these insights that we gain a deeper understanding of their real-world challenges and aspirations, which ultimately helps us drive innovation. I've had the privilege of collaborating with Enedis. Their feedback over the years has played a key role in shaping our roadmap, and they were naturally involved in the early field testing of some of our new products. "We chose Cisco IE9300 Rugged Series switches for their ability to be seamlessly managed by Catalyst Center, which will allow us to deploy these switches in under 15 minutes with zero-touch across our 2300 substations in France. This will be very useful when, in the future, we upgrade our current deployment of IE4010 with IE9300 Rugged Series Switches, saving us tremendous amounts of operational cost and time." -- Arnaud Saupin, Technical Leader Network Engineering, Enedis I also had the pleasure of working with Nutrien and met Brock Richards, a passionate architect. He and the team at Nutrien inspired us to raise the bar. "As a leading global fertilizer producer, we must maintain a secure, high-performing network for worker safety, production, and seamless connectivity across our entire supply chain. Cisco IE3500 Rugged Series switches uniquely provide high-density PoE for cameras, LIDAR, Wi-Fi 7, and 5G APs, even in extreme underground environments. This, coupled with Cisco Silicon, delivers advanced networking features like VXLAN MP-BGP EVPN, enabling us to build a consistent, flexible, and secure network fabric across our diverse sites and use cases. The IE3500 is a true powerhouse that enables Nutrien's mission to "Feed the Future". -- Brock Richards, Senior Global Solution Architect, Nutrien A new era of wireless connectivity is here, and it's nothing short of revolutionary. We are excited to announce the integration of Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul and Wi-Fi technology in a wide selection of our Wi-Fi 7, 6E, and 6 access points, enabling organizations to unlock new use cases and capabilities. Both technologies can now operate simultaneously on a single hardware platform and can be managed with the same tools organizations rely on, such as Catalyst Center. This approach streamlines deployment, simplifies management, and reduces the costs and complexities associated with worker training and licensing, and spectrum management. Back in February at Cisco Live in Amsterdam, I had the privilege of speaking with Fabio Oleari about the vision for the future of industrial networking at E80. It was great to hear the insights, and we are thrilled that E80 had the opportunity to experience the capabilities of our expanding portfolio firsthand. "We're excited about the IE3100 Heavy Duty Series' compact size and IP67 rating for enhanced resistance to moisture, dust, and vibration, alongside the new IE3500 Rugged Series' feature set, poised to accelerate our innovation. The integration of Wi-Fi and Cisco URWB is also a welcome addition, letting us leverage the same access points for diverse use cases without duplicating infrastructure." -- Fabio Oleari, OT Cybersecurity Manager, E80 Group. After speaking with numerous customers, it's clear that AI use cases in industrial environments require seamless communication across OT, IT, and cloud domains. To meet these needs, robust cybersecurity measures are essential -- not only to swiftly detect malicious activity but also to effectively prevent intrusions. That's why we've made Cisco Cyber Vision better than ever to give you unparalleled visibility into your industrial environment to identify thousands of assets seamlessly and understand their roles. Transforming the challenge of absorbing vast amounts of data into actionable security policies has never been more exciting. We're leveraging AI clustering technology to simplify it all with new AI-powered security features, including asset clustering and identity threat detection for OT remote access. Segmentation is critical to prevent unwanted communications and stop the spread of malware, but first you need to group these assets to drive segmentation policies. Cyber Vision now includes AI-based asset clustering that automatically clusters assets into zones so organizations can implement segmentation in weeks not months. Cisco Cyber Vision automatically clusters assets to simplify communication across OT, IT, and cloud domains In addition, Cisco Secure Equipment Access (SEA) can now detect identity threats such as remote access from unexpected locations or unusual working hours. With added support for Cisco AI Assistant, administrators no longer have to sort through thousands of audit trails for forensics. Instead, they can ask the AI assistant and get answers in seconds. After 20 years at Cisco, I've seen countless innovations, but this year's World of Solutions demos at Cisco Live stand out as the most groundbreaking yet, with 11 demos for our industrial IoT portfolio. For one of those demos, we created a guitar refurbishment factory to showcase how the industrial network is evolving into the nervous system of the modern factory. In this futuristic assembly line, guitars are meticulously inspected and tuned by AI-driven robotics, demonstrating the full spectrum of capabilities enabled by the network. From AI-powered machine vision and virtualized programmable logic controllers to industrial visibility, network segmentation, secure remote access, data extraction, and more, this demo highlights how advanced networking is driving innovation and efficiency in industrial environments. First, precision robots scan the guitar's body for imperfections like scratches or dents (AI machine vision). Generative AI (GenAI) then steps in, suggesting creative fixes for these flaws, which are encoded into radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on each pallet. At the next station, the magic of music is found. As the guitar pauses before pickup, a robot plucks a string and GenAI listens to the tone, adjusting the tuning pegs to perfection. This process repeats for each string, ensuring every note is pitch perfect. Finally, the robot strums all the tuned strings. We're at the start of a new era for industrial IoT and I couldn't be more excited about what's ahead. With input from our customers and a shared commitment to innovation, we've built an expanded portfolio powered by advanced AI and purpose-driven features. It's designed to help you connect, secure, and optimize your critical infrastructure -- enabling smarter, faster, and more resilient operations. Together, we're not just preparing for the future of industrial operations -- we're shaping it. Unlock the full potential of AI with the Cisco AI-ready industrial networking portfolio. Industrial IoT New Products: Cisco Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series, Cisco IE3500 Rugged Series, Cisco IE3500 Heavy Duty Series, Cisco Catalyst IE3100 Heavy Duty, Subscribe to the Cisco Industrial IoT Newsletter

The AI-Ready Enterprise: Building the Intelligent Workplace with Cisco

The pace of innovation sparked by generative AI has been breakneck -- and it's only just beginning. This AI wave is a major technology disruption, and we've learned from past technology disruptions (cloud, mobility, the internet) that networks need fundamental change to support the new technology. In the workplace, AI will impact the nature of work itself, with humans orchestrating the work of AI assistants and AI agents, robots in factories making decisions autonomously, and self-service customer interactions handled agentically. AI will perform human-like work, but at machine speed and scale. And it's going to give companies a higher level of productivity. Across a population of eight billion people, it will feel like we have the collective throughput capacity of 80 billion. Yet paradoxically, in a world where adoption of generative AI is mainstream, human interaction becomes even more critical. Whether one-to-one or many-to-many, real-time discussion, debate, and communication of ideas are the moments when teams make progress and work gets done. AI not only reinforces the importance of collaboration, it also puts huge demands on networks. Taken together, this requires a fundamental rethinking of infrastructure to build a future-proofed workplace. To address these new network demands, at Cisco Live San Diego we announced a new architecture for the AI-ready secure network. It starts with a unified management platform -- cloud-first management for Meraki, Catalyst, and new devices across every network domain: routing, switching, wireless, and industrial. Our approach delivers consistent operations for cloud, on-premises, or hybrid, including complex enterprise deployments with capabilities like advanced configuration of routing and network fabrics. Digital assurance is built-in for visibility across both owned and unowned infrastructure. We are also announcing expanded ThousandEyes vantage points, including new Wi-Fi 7 access points, mobile devices, and industrial IoT devices. New organization-wide and client-level assurance views enable rapid drill-down to issues. Unifying device management and digital assurance in one platform unlocks new possibilities for AI-driven operations. Fact: AI depends on data. And the best network data comes from a common network platform. With our platform, we're evolving network operations to be AI-driven. Cisco AgenticOps is our new paradigm for modern IT. Powered by data aggregated across the network in our unified platform, it enables increasingly autonomous diagnosis and resolution across domains -- with humans always in control. At its core is our Deep Network Model, a domain-specific large language model (LLM) trained on Cisco's vast networking knowledge, including CiscoU and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) materials. This AI understands networks like IT professionals do, slashing resolution time. AgenticOps starts with Cisco AI Assistant, a conversational interface for identifying issues, diagnosing root causes, and automating complex workflows. It's deeply integrated into the platform, so IT teams can easily incorporate it into their workflows. On top of AI Assistant is the new Cisco AI Canvas. This shared, interactive workspace features a groundbreaking generative UI that pulls from the same networking, security, and observability data that powers the unified platform. IT teams interface with AI Assistant and solve with AI Canvas, building real-time dashboards to guide corrective action. Team members can share dashboards with colleagues and save them to persist across sessions. AI Canvas uses advanced reasoning models to break down troubleshooting into structured steps. When teams agree on a proposed solution, AI Canvas takes action to fix the problem, from implementing a configuration change to executing steps in a runbook. This collaborative approach uses AI to bring NetOps, SecOps, and other teams together for faster problem resolution. AI applications are adding pressure to all networks -- campus, branch, and industrial -- demanding greater capacity and lower latency. To handle this traffic surge, we're introducing a new generation of purpose-built network devices. For access networks, two new smart switches: the Cisco C9350 Fixed Access Smart Switch offers 48 multigigabit (mGig)/90W Universal Power over Ethernet (UPoE) downlink ports, up to 4×100 Gbps uplinks, and up to 1.6 Tbps stacked capacity. The Cisco C9610 Modular Core Smart Switch scales up to 256×100 Gbps ports and 51.2 Tbps capacity with redundant supervisors. Powered by Cisco Silicon One, these switches build on our data center smart switch momentum and have network processors and co-processors for additional functions like AI and security. We're also extending our Wi-Fi 7 portfolio with the new Cisco CW9179F access point. Featuring software-controllable beam switching, 16 spatial streams, redundant 10 Gbps ports, and integrated GPS for auto-location and Automated Frequency Coordination outdoors, it brings high performance to large venues like stadiums and arenas. The new Cisco Campus Gateway offers high-performance cloud management for campuses with up to 5000 access points and 50,000 clients, with no need to reconfigure networks and VLANs deployed with traditional wireless LAN controllers. Additional demands on access networks puts additional demands on the WAN, and 10 Gbps uplinks are giving way to 40+ Gbps uplinks. Our new Cisco 8000 Series Secure Routers deliver fast and scalable SD-WAN, integrated next-generation firewall, and post-quantum security in a single-box solution. With up to 3x performance of previous generations, multiple uplink options up to 2×100 Gbps, and flexible WAN connectivity options (including 5G and LTE), they offer forwarding throughput up to 190 Gbps and IPsec throughput up to 63 Gbps (at 512-byte packet size). We are also introducing our Unified Branch solution to simplify managing branch networks with a DevOps approach, replacing CLI commands with APIs and programmatic automation. Learn more about the new 8000 Series Secure Routers and Unified Branch. For industrial settings, we are introducing 19 new switches in the Cisco Industrial Ethernet Series, designed for industrial AI applications like vision-based quality inspection, AI-powered robots, and autonomous high-speed vehicles. Paired with a new unified Wi-Fi and Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) solution, we deliver resilience and scalability for IT/OT convergence. New AI workloads and increased traffic volume mean an expanded attack surface. AI is creating a generation of vibe coders; next is a legion of vibe hackers. IT and security teams are facing an amplified threat landscape, and this demands a new approach: fusing security into each layer of the network. Our multi-layer approach to security starts with the system itself, with our devices are secure by design. Quantum-secure boot ensures only verified software runs, and we are introducing Live Protect -- compensating controls that let administrators address new exploits quickly, before patches can be applied. Next, we're securing network connectivity with quantum-resistant encryption for IPsec, MACsec, and WAN MACsec, future-proofing your network against increasingly common "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks. We are also enabling quantum-resistant encryption for management traffic to the device itself. We're securing users, endpoints, and applications with scalable segmentation, Software Defined Access (SDA), and next-generation firewall. By integrating with Cisco Security Cloud Control, we can have policy defined centrally with enforcement distributed throughout the network. But we're not stopping there. We're continuing to push the envelope in security for the network. Our new smart switches are also ready for Hypershield -- Cisco's innovation for distributed mesh firewalls. Moreover, our Universal Zero-Trust Network Access (UZTNA) architecture secures users and devices with least-privileged access, delivering a consistent experience from anywhere users connect. Building future-proofed workplaces is also about empowering people to work more effectively. AI must enhance experiences for both customers and employees -- so we're delivering innovations to transform contact centers, conference rooms, and everyday work. The new AI-powered Room Vision Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) camera redefines meetings by tracking presenters, framing speakers, and adapting to room dynamics. This camera features simple deployment with power, video, and controls over one Ethernet cable and cloud-based management with Control Hub. Explore how we're delivering cinematic meetings in Snorre Kjesbu's blog. Organizations also need to deliver real-time, personalized customer interactions. We're introducing new Webex AI Agent capabilities for easier self-service, including expanded AI engine support and prebuilt, industry-specific templates for faster AI Agent deployment. Read more on our AI-powered customer experience announcements in Jay Patel's blog. We're committed to empowering our customers with choice and flexibility, and now Cisco brings the power of AI to on-premises deployments. With innovations like background noise removal and background blur, we're making meetings on our on-premises solution distraction-free. For customers of Cisco Contact Center Enterprise, general availability of release 15 enables Webex AI Agent and AI Assistant capabilities. Cisco provides the solutions and innovations you need to thrive in the AI era. We understand that building future-proofed workplaces requires a comprehensive approach, and Cisco delivers the full breadth of networking, security, and collaboration solutions needed to empower your organization for whatever comes next.

The New Family of Cisco Smart Switches: Built to Power What's Next

Introducing Cisco Smart Switches for the AI-powered enterprise This week at Cisco Live San Diego, we introduced a major leap forward in enterprise networking: The new family of Cisco C9000 Smart Switches, purpose-built for the AI-ready campus. These switches deliver blazing performance, quantum-secure networking, and radically simplified operations -- supporting our new realities as AI transforms the way we work, collaborate, and operate. From retail environments to factory floors and from operating rooms to global campuses, AI is pushing legacy networks beyond their limits. The rise of high-resolution video, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) collaboration, and IoT devices intensifies the pressure, driving demand for higher bandwidth, lower-latency traffic, and machine-speed security. Complexity -- always a challenge -- has become a liability, and yet the networks underpinning these shifts were built for another time. That's why Cisco built something entirely new -- an infrastructure foundation engineered for the AI era. Cisco Smart Switches are the first switching family engineered specifically for AI-era campus environments. They're built to support AI workloads such as AR/VR, computer vision, industrial automation, and a range of generative AI (GenAI) and agentic use cases -- while ensuring the network core scales to meet the data gravity of AI traffic. The first two models -- Cisco C9350 Fixed Access Smart Switches and Cisco C9610 Modular Core Smart Switches -- feature key new innovations. These aren't just feature enhancements -- they represent a rethinking of what access and aggregation layers must become in the AI era. With the increase in users, devices, technologies, cyber adversaries, stakeholders, and expectations, operating networks of any size can be complex. When you have thousands of devices to manage across a global infrastructure, scaling securely is nearly impossible. No one can afford downtime or a costly mistake. Cisco Smart Switches help you overcome these challenges so you can onboard easily, define policies, upgrade with minimal disruption, and gain comprehensive insights across both owned and unowned infrastructure -- all from a single dashboard. Managing your network is now easier than ever. Administrators can configure and manage switching, wireless, routing, and SD-WAN all from a single dashboard. Fast, frictionless, out-of-the-box provisioning, intelligent port profiling, and automated onboarding of Wi-Fi 7 access points and multi-gig clients eliminate hours of manual effort and reduce the potential for error. This simplicity is made possible through intelligence embedded into the switch, enabling it to dynamically detect connected device types and apply context-aware configurations through built-in AI logic. We've also simplified large, complex deployments with the design of a microservices-based architecture, elastic scaling, and high-availability designs. Tracking energy performance metrics has never been easier with energy insights integrated into the dashboard. Granular, device-level power analytics, scheduled power policies, and user-level carbon footprint insights support both IT operations and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. Cisco Smart Switches unlock new levels of operational agility with rich AI and innate intelligence telemetry. This intelligence enables the telemetry system to not only collect and report data but also to analyze, interpret, and act on that data in real time without requiring external systems to process it. This provides alerts and remediation data before users are impacted. Integrations with ThousandEyes and Splunk provide end-to-end visibility from access layer to SaaS applications. No more surprises or dead ends when issues occur outside of your network. Now you can easily pinpoint the issue and remedy it on your terms, whether in the owned or unowned infrastructure. Troubleshooting has never been easier with all-new capabilities in the Cisco AI Assistant. The conversational, natural language interface makes it easy for teams to get a view of your network's overall condition. If an issue is occurring, Cisco AI Assistant can quickly identify root causes, suggest remedies, and at your request, implement the action of your choice -- all with full audit tracking and role-based access controls. We're taking this simplicity even further with Cisco AI Canvas, a GenAI workspace within the dashboard that helps NetOps, SecOps, and DevOps teams resolve complex incidents faster and more collaboratively. AI Canvas serves as your own dynamic command center to address your network's specific needs. You can automate tasks of your choosing and actively collaborate to accelerate the resolution of issues when they happen. AI Canvas puts everything from your network in one place, provides simple visualizations for complex issues, and amplifies your team's productivity tenfold. Cisco is not just helping simplify operations -- we're reengineering them for a future where networks think, adapt, and respond alongside AI workloads. The result: faster troubleshooting, higher uptime, lower operational cost, and a network that evolves as fast as your business. AI is emerging as the preeminent tool for streamlining enterprise operations. It's also redefining the threat landscape. From AI-generated phishing schemes to adversarial malware and deepfakes, threats are becoming faster, more targeted, and increasingly automated. The new Cisco Smart Switches are designed not just to keep up, but to stay ahead. At the core of this new security paradigm is the integration of quantum-resistant technologies. Our switches have long featured secure boot and hardened Linux to prevent tampering and installation of unauthorized software. But with quantum computing on the horizon, traditional encryption methods like RSA, ECC, and Diffie-Hellman are becoming vulnerable. Cisco Smart Switches include quantum protection, future-proofing your network against current and future threats. These switches don't stop at device-level protection. They extend quantum-resilient encryption into the data plane itself. By incorporating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into existing standards like MACsec, IPsec, and WAN MACsec, we ensure campus-wide data confidentiality -- even as encrypted data traverses increasingly complex, AI-driven topologies. This approach secures data against interception by rogue devices or malicious edge endpoints. Our switches are also the first line of enforcement in the Cisco Universal Zero-Trust Network Access (UZTNA) framework. They dynamically block unauthorized endpoints and lateral movement within the switch itself, enforcing granular security and access policies using real-time endpoint context. This removes the need to reroute traffic to distant firewalls for basic access control -- freeing bandwidth and reducing latency. But when advanced inspection is needed, our new Security Service Insertion capability intelligently steers traffic to designated firewalls, ensuring optimal use of network and security resources. And with Live Protect coming soon, newly discovered threats can be mitigated in near-real time -- without requiring image upgrades or device reboots. In short, Cisco Smart Switches are secure by design -- from the silicon to the cloud. Built for an unpredictable future, they offer protection that adapts as fast as threats evolve. AI is the most transformative force in enterprise technology since the cloud, but it's only as effective as the infrastructure supporting it. With the new Cisco Smart Switches, we're giving enterprises the tools to harness the power of AI -- safely, efficiently, and at scale. The future of the enterprise campus is AI-powered, and now, it's ready. Some of the products and features mentioned are still in development and will be made available as they are finalized, subject to ongoing evolution in development and innovation. The timeline for their release is subject to change.

Wi-Fi for the AI Enterprise: Scalability, Security, and Simplicity in Every Environment

The AI enterprise is here, and it's demanding more from our wireless networks than ever before. We're seeing an explosion of AI agents designed to automate operations, an increase in bandwidth-hungry applications like 8K video streaming, and a growing need to protect an expanding attack surface that's overwhelming IT. At Cisco, we understand these challenges and are committed to providing our customers with the tools needed not just to keep up but thrive in this new era. That's why I'm incredibly excited about three new, groundbreaking additions to our wireless portfolio that were just announced at Cisco Live San Diego. We're expanding our Wi-Fi 7 portfolio with the Cisco Wireless 9179F Access Point for stadiums and large venues, delivering seamless, cloud-managed roaming for large campuses with the Cisco Campus Gateway, and connecting new critical wireless use cases with the integration of Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) together with Wi-Fi technology in a single access point. These aren't just incremental upgrades; they represent fundamental shifts in how we approach campus networking. These new additions are designed to deliver the scalability, security, and simplicity that the AI enterprise demands. This addition to our Wi-Fi 7 portfolio is all about delivering the best possible wireless experiences in the highest-density use cases like stadiums, large public venues, and convention centers. For organizations with complex campus wireless networks, the Cisco Campus Gateway is a game changer. This solution is designed to facilitate a seamless transition to cloud management and deliver high performance and scalability without requiring costly and disruptive infrastructure changes. AI-enabled applications across smart manufacturing, healthcare, retail warehouse automation, and more depend on predictable, reliable wireless connectivity. Our URWB standalone solution provides a proven, dedicated, high-performance wireless link for critical systems -- ensuring seamless operation, even in the face of interference or network congestion. Wi-Fi 7 is more than a network for connectivity -- it's the foundation you need to build truly smart spaces at every scale. That's why Cisco Spaces is included as part of every wireless subscription license. Out of the box, you'll have access to rich AI 3D mapping, dynamic IoT services, precise asset tracking, and more. Paired with a Cisco Networking Subscription, you get the same seamless experience in one license -- whether managing a network from the cloud, on-premises, or through a hybrid model. This enables greater operational simplicity and the freedom to evolve your network management approach as your needs change. We offer a truly smart, unified, and simple licensing model. Now that the AI enterprise is here, it's time to future-proof your network -- especially in the most-demanding environments. With the Cisco Wireless CW9179F Access Point, Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) technology, and the Cisco Campus Gateway, you're positioned to unlock the full potential of AI and transform your organization. Cisco wireless technologies empower you to scale, secure, and simplify your operations, so you can deliver exceptional experiences for fans, employees, and customers alike.

Cisco Networking, Smart Switches And Wi-Fi Gear Unveiled At Cisco Live 2025

Most networks are treading water as AI workloads place new demands on enterprise infrastructure. Here are the latest smart switches, routers and Wi-Fi devices that Cisco says will help enterprises meet the AI challenge. The advent of AI marks one of the most consequential and profound technology shifts in human history, according to Jeetu Patel, Cisco Systems' president and chief product officer. It's a massive shift in which enterprises and Cisco partners must ready themselves for as increasing AI workloads incite new, unprecedented demands on network infrastructure. What started with chatbots three years ago is transforming into autonomous agents, and enterprise networks will need to be robust and secure enough to keep up. With that in mind, Cisco is unveiling new, purpose-built hardware that offers low latency, high capacity and built-in security for businesses grappling with AI. The San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant took to Cisco Live 2025 to introduce a handful of new, next-gen network devices that have been designed to scale to meet the needs of AI workloads. Here are the latest switches, routers and Wi-Fi products revealed at the show that Cisco partners should know about. Cisco is introducing the C9350 and C9610 Smart Switches to power campus networks. The new generation of Cisco Smart Switches, powered by Silicon One, delivers up to 51.2 Tbps of throughput, below 5-microsecond latency and quantum-resistant secure networking to power high-stakes AI applications, the company said. The offerings build on Cisco's February introduction of the Nexus 9300 series of smart switches with embedded data processing units for the data center. Both the new switches and the previously introduced Nexus smart switches include Hypershield, the company's AI-powered security architecture for data center protection, as a service. A family of five new Cisco Secure Routers -- the 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400 and 8500 -- were introduced at Cisco Live 2025 as AI transforms branch operations, the company said. The new Cisco Secure Routers offer native SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) integration, next-generation firewall (NGFW), and post-quantum security in a single-box WAN solution -- with up to three times the throughput of previous generations, Cisco said. Cisco continues to expand its wireless portfolio, this time with the completion of its Wi-Fi 7 product line with the Cisco Wireless 9179F series access points for stadiums and large venues. The Cisco Wireless 9179F offers seamless cloud managed roaming across the entire, large campus with the new Cisco campus gateway. New critical wireless use cases are now connected with the integration of Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) together with Wi-Fi technology in a single access point, Cisco said. Like the previously unveiled Wi-Fi 7 technology, users won't have to choose between two different platforms -- the cloud-based Meraki and the premises-based Catalyst platforms for management. Via Cisco's Networking Subscription, customers have more flexibility and a seamless wireless experience across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks, the company said. Cisco is also growing its industrial portfolio to keep up with the rigorous performance and reliability needs that are being brought about by industrial AI use cases. With that in mind, Cisco is unveiling 19 new ruggedized switches that come in a variety of form factors to support applications such as visual quality inspection and autonomous mobile robots, the company said. Via the integration of URWB and Wi-Fi and a single access point, high-density wireless can be achieved across IT and industrial environments in one unified wireless infrastructure, Cisco said.