I see new Nexus 9300 Hyper Fabric announcement, ready for prime time? What else is cooking inside AI story? Is the ship finally turning a corner?
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They have very few that understand AI at cisco. They certainly don't have anything they can deliver except a lot of big talkers that spew meaningless stuff with absolute conviction.
Expanded partnership with NVIDIA. Hot off the presses:
https://datacentremagazine.com/technology-and-ai/nvidia-and-cisco-to-accelerate-data-centre-ai-adoption
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OP might be wondering about LRs from "Nexus 9300 Hyper Fabric" team around Aug2025..
Collab cx reminding you that our AI Audio codec is a difference maker in taking teams and zooms business. I wish some of you down folks would look at yourselves and rededicate yourself to being a positive force. Cisco owes you nothing but a paycheck. They do so much more and anyone with pleasure to work there knows it. They have been too nice and accommodating to nonsense and it’s changing. We still have too many that do nothing. My exp has been those get LR.
Engineer here... some of the 'products' I've seen will hit the market like a flat ton of lead, coming in a day late and a dollar short, allowing customers to reminisce over the early days of ML (not even AI). It's going to be embarrassing when/if they ever hit the market.
Hyper Fabric Is one of the best innovations Cisco had in years. It is an Arista ki-ler.
Cisco has poured substantial resources into a small group that spent nearly two years writing a book on AI use cases rather than delivering functional solutions. Every year, leadership insists AI is just around the corner for internal use, yet nothing ever materializes.
Despite heavy investments in model training, the company has produced no usable AI tools. The only AI in use is a poorly executed wrapper on ChatGPT, while Cisco pays Microsoft for CoPilot in hopes it will somehow prevent developers from generating low-quality code. Meanwhile, leadership continues to ignore the deeply entrenched Not Invented Here mindset that actively blocks real innovation.
At its core, no one seems to understand what AI is, how to use it effectively, or that it’s merely a tool—not a magic solution to the problems management itself is creating. The cycle repeats: fire the experts, rediscover all the same pains and rookie mistakes while training replacements, then realize there’s no budget to train or hire properly. And so, failure perpetuates itself.
there's plenty of internal chatter about AI at Cisco, and it is dominated by AI criticism
makes sense, mediocre devs will be decimated by AI in coming years and this is the core of Cisco's technical workforce
This is thelayoff.com not forums.cisco.com. OMG.....
That’s the neat part, it’s not!