By PR Newswire
Publication Date: 2026-03-16 20:30:00
Expanded architecture lets businesses run AI at scale, from central data centers to the factory floor, without sacrificing performance or security
NEWS SUMMARY:
Cisco expands its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to work not just in large data centers, but at local edge sites where real-time decisions can’t wait, from hospitals and warehouses to moving vehicles.
Cisco is the premier partner to deliver partner-developed systems featuring NVIDIA Spectrum-X switch silicon paired with a Cisco operating system, providing customers the flexibility of leveraging both NVIDIA Cloud Partner-compliant reference architectures and Cisco Silicon One-based architectures.
Cisco adds deeper security capabilities to its reference architecture by extending Hybrid Mesh Firewall policy enforcement to NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and integrating Cisco AI Defense to secure multi-agent systems.
Cisco AI Defense will support and secure NVIDIA’s new open agent development platform, OpenShell, adding…




