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AMSTERDAM, Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Cisco Live EMEA — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), a leader in networking and security, today introduced new features and technologies across its networking portfolio designed to drive a more integrated, unified approach to managing and securing customer networks.
IT organizations look to technology providers to help them address three core priorities for network operations: security, automation, and a unified digital experience for end users, things, and applications. As these companies consider deploying AI-powered technologies, the need for a deep understanding of the end-to-end experience becomes increasingly important.
“The future of AI depends on networks, and the future of networks depends on AI,” said Jonathan Davidson, EVP and GM of Cisco Networking. “With Cisco Networking Cloud, the data set that feeds this AI comes from over 1 billion endpoints. Simplify and secure network operations at any scale for a better user experience. No other networking vendor has more intelligence to do this.”
secure networking
Users need secure networking solutions that provide a shared view across the network and a scalable way to enforce security policies anywhere without sacrificing an always-on, optimized user experience. To meet your needs, Cisco is introducing new Cisco Networking Cloud innovations.
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new Integration with Cisco Secure Access: Underscoring Cisco's commitment to providing customers with tools that bring networking and security teams closer together, Cisco is introducing deeper integration between Cisco networking platforms and security cloud platforms. Powered by Cisco Secure Access, Cisco's Secure Services Edge (SSE) solution, these innovations deliver a unified approach to networking and security management and automated monitoring of your digital experience, providing insight into network, device, and application performance metrics. provides insight. These integrations are currently available for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and ThousandEyes.
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Enhanced security posture reporting for OT assets: Industry organizations can now reduce their attack surface with comprehensive details on their OT asset inventory, key vulnerabilities, and highest cyber risks with Security Posture Reports. These features are available with Cisco Cyber Vision and are available as part of hardened industrial-grade routers, switches, and firewalls.
Simplified operation
To demonstrate how we continue to integrate our management platforms and move toward a unified portfolio experience, we are introducing:
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Catalyst Wireless Cloud Monitoring: First introduced as a feature of Catalyst switching. Customers can now view and manage selected Catalyst wireless devices in their Meraki dashboard. This new feature provides Cisco customers with a complete cloud management view of their access network. Catalyst Wireless cloud monitoring supports the Catalyst 9800 wireless controller and most Catalyst Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2, Wi-Fi 6, and Wi-Fi 6E access points.
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Catalyst 9300-M cloud managed switch models: Cisco continues its commitment to a single, unified hardware architecture with new Catalyst 9300-M switches that are managed natively from the Meraki dashboard. This is the first step in the evolution of the Catalyst switching portfolio towards full cloud management.
Evolving AI with scalable infrastructure
Cisco is also announcing new technologies to help customers accelerate AI adoption by providing the right infrastructure for the right use cases.
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Cisco UCS X-Series Direct: An extension of Cisco's industry-leading and award-winning UCS X-Series Modular System, the new Cisco X-Series Direct provides connectivity and connectivity at the edge to help customers support more applications with less infrastructure. Built for environments that require computing power.
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Cisco AI-validated design: Cisco is expanding its offering of converged and hyperconverged validated designs to address new use cases. Recently Announced Cisco Validated Solutions and AI/ML Blueprint For data center networks. These designs leverage AI/ML by helping customers build high-performance computing and data center network fabrics with automation and visibility tailored to a variety of AI-driven enterprise use cases. Accelerate deployment and minimize risk.
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