en.Wedoany.com Reported - Cisco unveiled its AI-era infrastructure strategy during the Cisco Live keynote in Las Vegas, with CEO Chuck Robbins predicting that AI-related network traffic will triple over the next three years.
Robbins outlined Cisco's vision for the AI era, stating that enterprise infrastructure must evolve to meet the growing demands of AI applications, automation, robotics, and digital operations. He placed traffic growth in the context of robotics, manufacturing, physical AI, agentic applications, and enterprise automation, noting that these factors will drive increased traffic across data centers, campuses, branches, cloud, and edge locations. The keynote framed Cisco's strategy around three priorities: building AI-ready data centers, creating the future workplace, and securing digital operations with greater resilience.
Robbins said the network remains "more powerful than the node," extending Cisco's original router-era message into the AI infrastructure cycle. Cisco Cloud Control is central to the company's AgenticOps strategy, providing a common platform for human operators and AI agents to manage critical IT systems. According to Robbins, Cisco IQ has attracted over 1,700 customers within weeks, 90% of whom self-onboarded. More than 90% of surveyed Cisco customers said they need to modernize infrastructure and improve network resilience.
Robbins emphasized that AI transformation will force enterprises to rethink network defense. He argued that frontier models "are as bad as they will ever be," meaning defense architectures must assume both legitimate users and attackers will advance rapidly. Cisco scanned 1.8 billion lines of code across 25 programming languages in eight weeks using advanced AI models, a task Robbins said would have previously taken years. Cisco released a "Shields Up" guide to help customers reduce technical debt and prepare infrastructure for AI-driven security threats.
Sovereign infrastructure also received significant attention. Robbins said governments are now asking Cisco about sovereignty for data, AI, and cloud services, with requirements varying by country and region. Cisco launched a sovereign critical infrastructure portfolio, initially targeting Europe, supporting on-premises deployment, physical isolation, AI-ready infrastructure, and trust-based licensing. Robbins also noted that quantum computing will become another major disruption, highlighting Cisco's universal quantum switch research prototype.
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol joined Robbins on stage during the keynote to discuss how AI, connectivity, and data are reshaping customer experience, supply chain operations, store scheduling, and personalization. Niccol said Starbucks uses AI to improve forecasting, inventory management, store scheduling, customer personalization, and supply chain execution, adding that better forecasting could ultimately reduce warehouse inventory by enabling stores to restock specific items within 12 to 24 hours rather than receiving full-case shipments.
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