Nvidia and Cisco push the enterprise AI factory into the rack-scale era
The Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia has been extended into the rack-scale era, offering enterprises greater full-stack operational capabilities as a result.
Designed to give customers a framework for deploying artificial intelligence across their entire infrastructure, Secure AI Factory with Nvidia from Cisco Systems Inc. now integrates rack-to-fabric liquid cooling supporting systems beyond 200 kilowatts per rack for reasoning, agentic AI and trillion-parameter training. The latest enhancements include Nvidia Spectrum-X switch silicon paired with a Cisco operating system, enabling customers to leverage both Nvidia Cloud Partner-compliant reference architectures and Cisco Silicon One-based architectures.
“From a networking standpoint, on the scale-out portion connecting GPUs, we have a stack from Cisco where we’re taking the Nvidia Spectrum silicon [and] we’re putting our NX-OS or SONiC on it,” said Will Eatherton (pictured, left), senior vice president and head of networking engineering at Cisco. “Then we use that to connect the GPUs on the front end. We use Cisco Silicon One with a similar, same software — NX-OS, SONiC — and then we have an option where, for instance, the customer is doing high-performance networking with storage.”
