By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-02-12 00:20:00
Cisco Systems Inc. has long been regarded as the market leader in networking, but over the past few years, the company has strived to position itself as “critical infrastructure for the artificial intelligence era.” It now seems to be making headway with that as the stock hits an all-time high.
This week at Cisco Live EMEA, in Amsterdam, Cisco delivered another payload of innovation targeted at helping customers move their AI from the “chatbot phase,” and jump into the agentic era. Agentic AI will create a marked improvement in productivity as it goes far beyond humans asking AI questions but enables autonomous agents to perform complex tasks, reason through workflows, and interact with enterprise data at large scale.
Though the vision of agentic AI paints a rosy future, it’s important to note that traditional infrastructure wasn’t cut out for the rigors of AI and most companies will be looking to do the most significant technology refresh since the early days…