{"id":37079,"date":"2025-10-30T23:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/cisco-bets-big-on-ai-powered-6g-and-data-center-hardware\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:01:36","slug":"cisco-bets-big-on-ai-powered-6g-and-data-center-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/cisco-bets-big-on-ai-powered-6g-and-data-center-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco bets big on AI-powered 6G and data center hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dataconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Cisco_s_N9100_switch_powers_AI_with_NVIDIA_Spectrum-X.jpeg\" alt=\"Cisco bets big on AI-powered 6G and data center hardware\" title=\"Cisco bets big on AI-powered 6G and data center hardware\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cisco Systems announced AI infrastructure advancements at NVIDIA\u2019s GTC conference in Washington D.C., introducing an AI-native wireless stack for 6G and the N9100 data center switch. Global telecom cloud infrastructure spending is projected to grow from $17.4 billion in 2025 to $24.8 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco\u2019s AI strategy involves \u201cAI for Wireless\u201d and \u201cWireless for AI.\u201d \u201cAI for Wireless\u201d integrates artificial intelligence into network infrastructure for real-time sensing and optimization. \u201cWireless for AI\u201d transforms mobile networks into distributed AI engines, enabling dynamic allocation of compute and spectrum resources. This architecture supports \u201cphysical AI\u201d for devices like robots and autonomous vehicles requiring ultra-low latency.<\/p>\n<p>The AI-WIN project, a collaboration including Cisco, NVIDIA, Booz Allen, MITRE, ODC, and T-Mobile, built an AI-native mobile network stack in six months. This system demonstrated the first user-to-user phone call over an AI-native network and multimodal integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) for public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Masum Mir, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Provider Mobility, stated, \u201cThrough this partnership, we are pioneering the future of intelligent, secure connectivity \u2014 where AI is infused into the fabric of mobile networks and services.\u201d The AI-native stack integrates NVIDIA\u2019s AI Aerial platform with Cisco\u2019s 5G core software and user plane functions, providing simultaneous connectivity and AI processing.<\/p>\n<p>The N9100 switch, equipped with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet silicon, establishes Cisco as the first partner to offer an NVIDIA Cloud Partner-compliant reference architecture. The switch provides 51.2 Tbps of bandwidth and allows customers to choose between Cisco NX-OS or SONiC operating systems. Cisco shares have risen 22% year-to-date, recently reaching a 52-week high of $72.68. AI infrastructure orders contributed $2 billion in fiscal 2025.<\/p>\n<p>McKinsey estimates AI-driven telecom services could generate over $150 billion in annual savings by 2030. With 65% of telecom companies planning increased AI infrastructure budgets in 2025, Cisco\u2019s AI networking portfolio is positioned to capitalize on this investment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured image credit<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco Systems announced AI infrastructure advancements at NVIDIA\u2019s GTC conference in Washington D.C., introducing an AI-native wireless stack for 6G and the N9100 data center switch. Global telecom cloud infrastructure spending is projected to grow from $17.4 billion in 2025 to $24.8 billion by 2030. Cisco\u2019s AI strategy involves \u201cAI for Wireless\u201d and \u201cWireless for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technologies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}