By Austin Lin,
Publication Date: 2025-12-18 16:00:00
As enterprises connect tens of thousands of sites, hundreds of thousands of people, millions of devices, and an emerging ecosystem of AI workloads and agents, operational simplicity has become a necessary superpower for business growth.
We sat down with Austin Lin, Vice President of Product Management for the Cisco Networking platform, to unpack how Cisco powers the world’s largest enterprise networks at global scale.
Cisco has the industry’s largest networking platform. What does that scale look like, and why does it matter for IT teams?
Today, our networking platform manages over 38 million devices and connects more than 1 billion clients.
This massive set of real-world data fuels AgenticOps. It’s our next evolution in AI-driven networking to deliver intelligence and recommendations for simpler network operations and faster troubleshooting, powered by Cisco Deep Network Model. With the Cisco AI Assistant and embedded agentic Workflows, we’re moving beyond traditional…
