Cisco Empowers Service Providers to Reimagine Networks for AI
Cisco has unveiled new solutions to enable service providers to deliver AI connectivity through its Agile Services Networking architecture. The announcement includes three key innovations: new Silicon One Systems and Platforms (including A100 and K100 devices), Coherent Pluggable Optics supporting ultra long-haul applications up to 3000km, and enhanced Network Automation and Assurance Features.
The architecture aims to simplify networking, improve resilience, and enable service providers to monetize assured services. Notably, one edge architecture use case utilizing Cisco's 8000 series demonstrated potential reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 324 metric tonnes CO2e and 80% lower energy consumption compared to traditional deployments.
The first Silicon One-powered 8000 series is currently available, with additional models and Coherent Pluggable Optics scheduled for spring and summer 2025. Several global service providers, including Arelion, Bell Canada, and BT business, have expressed support for the new capabilities.
Cisco ha presentato nuove soluzioni per consentire ai fornitori di servizi di offrire connettività AI attraverso la sua architettura Agile Services Networking. L'annuncio comprende tre innovazioni chiave: nuovi Silicon One Systems e Platforms (inclusi i dispositivi A100 e K100), ottiche pluggable coerenti che supportano applicazioni a lunga distanza fino a 3000 km, e funzionalità avanzate di automazione e garanzia della rete.
L'architettura mira a semplificare il networking, migliorare la resilienza e consentire ai fornitori di servizi di monetizzare i servizi garantiti. È particolarmente rilevante un caso d'uso dell'architettura edge che utilizza la serie 8000 di Cisco, che ha dimostrato una potenziale riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra di 324 tonnellate metriche di CO2e e un consumo energetico inferiore dell'80% rispetto alle implementazioni tradizionali.
La prima serie 8000 alimentata da Silicon One è attualmente disponibile, con modelli aggiuntivi e ottiche pluggable coerenti previsti per la primavera e l'estate del 2025. Diversi fornitori di servizi globali, tra cui Arelion, Bell Canada e BT business, hanno espresso supporto per le nuove funzionalità.
Cisco ha revelado nuevas soluciones para permitir a los proveedores de servicios ofrecer conectividad de IA a través de su arquitectura Agile Services Networking. El anuncio incluye tres innovaciones clave: nuevos Sistemas y Plataformas Silicon One (incluyendo los dispositivos A100 y K100), Ópticas Plugables Coherentes que soportan aplicaciones de larga distancia de hasta 3000 km, y características mejoradas de Automatización y Garantía de Redes.
La arquitectura tiene como objetivo simplificar el networking, mejorar la resiliencia y permitir que los proveedores de servicios monetizen los servicios garantizados. Cabe destacar que un caso de uso de arquitectura edge que utiliza la serie 8000 de Cisco demostró una reducción potencial de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero de 324 toneladas métricas de CO2e y un consumo energético un 80% menor en comparación con implementaciones tradicionales.
La primera serie 8000 impulsada por Silicon One está actualmente disponible, con modelos adicionales y Ópticas Plugables Coherentes programadas para la primavera y el verano de 2025. Varios proveedores de servicios globales, incluidos Arelion, Bell Canada y BT business, han expresado su apoyo a las nuevas capacidades.
시스코는 서비스 제공업체가 Agile Services Networking 아키텍처를 통해 AI 연결성을 제공할 수 있도록 하는 새로운 솔루션을 발표했습니다. 발표에는 세 가지 주요 혁신이 포함되어 있습니다: 새로운 Silicon One 시스템 및 플랫폼(A100 및 K100 장치 포함), 3000km까지의 초장거리 애플리케이션을 지원하는 Coherent 플러그형 광학, 향상된 네트워크 자동화 및 보증 기능입니다.
이 아키텍처는 네트워킹을 단순화하고 회복력을 개선하며 서비스 제공업체가 보장된 서비스를 수익화할 수 있도록 하는 것을 목표로 합니다. 특히 시스코의 8000 시리즈를 활용한 에지 아키텍처 사용 사례는 전통적인 배치에 비해 온실가스 배출량을 324톤 CO2e 줄이고 에너지 소비를 80% 낮출 수 있는 잠재력을 보여주었습니다.
Silicon One으로 구동되는 첫 번째 8000 시리즈는 현재 이용 가능하며, 추가 모델과 Coherent 플러그형 광학은 2025년 봄과 여름에 예정되어 있습니다. Arelion, Bell Canada, BT 비즈니스를 포함한 여러 글로벌 서비스 제공업체들이 새로운 기능에 대한 지지를 표명했습니다.
Cisco a dévoilé de nouvelles solutions pour permettre aux fournisseurs de services de proposer une connectivité IA grâce à son architecture Agile Services Networking. L'annonce comprend trois innovations clés : de nouveaux Systèmes et Plates-formes Silicon One (y compris les appareils A100 et K100), Optiques Pluggables Cohérentes supportant des applications ultra longue distance allant jusqu'à 3000 km, et des Fonctionnalités Améliorées d'Automatisation et de Garantie de Réseau.
L'architecture vise à simplifier le réseau, à améliorer la résilience et à permettre aux fournisseurs de services de monétiser des services garantis. Notamment, un cas d'utilisation de l'architecture edge utilisant la série 8000 de Cisco a démontré une réduction potentielle des émissions de gaz à effet de serre de 324 tonnes métriques de CO2e et une consommation d'énergie 80 % inférieure par rapport aux déploiements traditionnels.
La première série 8000 alimentée par Silicon One est actuellement disponible, avec d'autres modèles et des Optiques Pluggables Cohérentes prévues pour le printemps et l'été 2025. Plusieurs fournisseurs de services mondiaux, dont Arelion, Bell Canada et BT business, ont exprimé leur soutien aux nouvelles capacités.
Cisco hat neue Lösungen vorgestellt, um Dienstanbietern die Bereitstellung von AI-Konnektivität über die Agile Services Networking Architektur zu ermöglichen. Die Ankündigung umfasst drei Schlüsselinnovationen: neue Silicon One Systeme und Plattformen (einschließlich der Geräte A100 und K100), Koherente Steckoptiken, die ultra-lange Streckenanwendungen bis zu 3000 km unterstützen, und verbesserte Netzwerkautomatisierungs- und Garantie-Funktionen.
Die Architektur zielt darauf ab, die Netzwerke zu vereinfachen, die Widerstandsfähigkeit zu verbessern und es Dienstanbietern zu ermöglichen, gesicherte Dienstleistungen zu monetarisieren. Besonders bemerkenswert ist ein Anwendungsfall der Edge-Architektur, der die 8000-Serie von Cisco nutzt und eine potenzielle Reduzierung der Treibhausgasemissionen um 324 metrische Tonnen CO2e und einen 80% geringeren Energieverbrauch im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen Bereitstellungen demonstriert hat.
Die erste 8000-Serie, die von Silicon One betrieben wird, ist derzeit verfügbar, während zusätzliche Modelle und Koherente Steckoptiken für den Frühling und Sommer 2025 geplant sind. Mehrere globale Dienstanbieter, darunter Arelion, Bell Canada und BT Business, haben ihre Unterstützung für die neuen Fähigkeiten geäußert.
- Introduction of new Silicon One A100 and K100 devices expanding product portfolio
- New 400g ULH coherent pluggable optics enabling 3000km connectivity
- 80% reduction in energy consumption with new edge architecture
- 324 metric tonnes CO2e reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
- Partnership with major global service providers
- Most new products won't be available until spring/summer 2025
Insights
This strategic announcement positions Cisco at the forefront of the AI networking revolution, introducing critical infrastructure upgrades that could significantly impact its market dominance and revenue streams. The new Agile Services Networking architecture represents a comprehensive solution addressing three key market demands:
- Network simplification through layer convergence and unified management
- Enhanced performance capabilities with new Silicon One A100 and K100 devices
- Improved energy efficiency, projecting
80% lower consumption in edge deployments
The timing of this release is particularly strategic, coinciding with the rapid proliferation of AI applications and increasing demands on network infrastructure. The introduction of 400G ultra-long-haul coherent pluggable optics capable of connecting locations up to 3000km apart represents a significant technical achievement that could reduce network complexity and operational costs for service providers.
The partnership announcements with major global service providers like BT Business, Lumen and Deutsche Telekom validate the market demand and potential for these solutions. The phased rollout strategy, with initial availability now and additional releases through summer 2025, allows Cisco to capture market share while maintaining quality control in deployment.
Most significantly, this positions Cisco to capitalize on the growing enterprise AI adoption trend, as service providers will need robust, scalable infrastructure to support the increasing demands of AI applications. The focus on edge computing capabilities and assured services creates new revenue opportunities for both Cisco and its service provider partners.
The environmental benefits of Cisco's new architecture represent a significant leap forward in sustainable networking technology. The projected reduction of 324 metric tonnes CO2e across the product lifetime is particularly noteworthy when considering the scale of global networking infrastructure. This improvement is achieved through three key innovations:
- Enhanced energy efficiency in edge architecture deployments
- Integration with Cisco's circular economy initiatives through the Takeback and Reuse program
- Simplified network architecture requiring fewer physical components
The
News Summary:
- Cisco Agile Services Networking architecture provides the blueprint for service providers as they look to enable AI connectivity and monetize assured services.
- Cisco is committed to helping service providers make their networks simpler, more resilient, and intelligent with new Silicon One-powered platforms, coherent pluggable optics and software enhancements.
- The delivery of AI-enabled applications and experiences relies on service providers, and Cisco is helping them evolve their networks for AI scale.
The data created by AI applications needs to be processed closer to the edge and closer to users, requiring better access speeds, service performance, resiliency and data security. Cisco is offering service providers a path forward with Cisco Agile Services Networking – an architecture for AI connectivity that enables service providers to monetize the delivery of assured services and networking.
"The AI revolution is a massive potential tailwind for service providers," said Jeetu Patel, EVP and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. "AI, and especially the advent of AI agents, will mean an incredible influx of new digital workers who will be working together and communicating constantly. Cisco's Agile Services Networking is the blueprint for service providers as they look to capitalize on the opportunities of AI by meeting the demand for high-bandwidth, secure, and energy-efficient connectivity."
Powering AI Connectivity, Delivering New Services
Service providers are in a unique position in the AI ecosystem. They own and operate the networks that connect where AI data is generated and where AI applications are consumed. They also own and operate the data centers where AI training and inferencing applications process massive data sets.
Cisco Agile Services Networking is an architecture designed to remove complexity with simplified networking that converges network layers and services. It can assure experiences with resilient networks and services enabled by AI-powered automation, observability, and security. And, service providers can monetize services deployed closer to their end-users from a network architecture optimized for intelligent service delivery. To deliver this architecture, Cisco is introducing:
- Cisco Silicon One Systems and Platforms: New Silicon One and Cisco 8000 portfolio additions to access, edge, and metro networks, offering consistent control, sustainability, security, and manageability for how networks are built from the silicon and systems level. The architecture introduces the new Cisco Silicon One A100 and K100 devices for fixed, centralized, and modular systems.
- Cisco Coherent Pluggable Optics: New 400g ULH coherent pluggable optics enable Cisco to support ultra long-haul applications and connect locations up to 3000km apart without the use of traditional transponders. Along with updated 100G and 800G optics, Cisco is extending Routed Optical Networking so service providers can simplify their network, improve management and use less energy by further converging their IP and optical layers.
- Network Automation and Assurance Features: Cisco Crosswork Network Automation and Provider Connectivity Assurance (formerly Accedian Skylight) offers new predictive AI technology to accelerate network capacity planning and resource allocation and gives operators comprehensive views to manage their entire network infrastructure. In addition, Provider Connectivity Assurance integrates with Splunk so customers can correlate application and infrastructure performance data and drive automated decisions that accelerate resolution.
Together, these new innovations supply service providers with the tools necessary to evolve their networks, develop new service offerings, and monetize the delivery of assured services. Agile Services Networking is also a more energy efficient and less resource-intensive architecture. When compared to traditional, centralized deployments, one edge architecture use case utilizing the Cisco 8000 series was projected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 324 metric tonnes CO2e across an assumed product lifetime and all product life phases when combined with Cisco's Takeback and Reuse program, and lower energy consumption by
The first of Cisco's Silicon One-powered 8000 series is generally available today; additional models are targeted to ship in spring and summer of 2025. The first of Cisco's new Coherent Pluggable Optics are also targeted to begin shipping in spring of 2025. The Network Automation and Assurance features are available now.
Partnering to capitalize on the AI opportunity
As AI continues to drive rapid change in how networks are built, managed, and optimized, Cisco's partnerships with service providers are more crucial than ever. Global Service Providers, including Arelion, Bell Canada, BT business, Colt, Lumen, Megaport, OTE (Deutsche Telekom) and Swisscom, have expressed excitement for the capabilities introduced by Cisco Agile Services Networking. Read more here.
Additional Resources
- Executive blog post: Meeting the Moment: Innovation for Unprecedented Times, Jeetu Patel
- Executive blog post: Cisco Silicon One Powers New Service Provider and Enterprise Data Center Solutions, Martin Lund
- Blog post: A service provider architecture for AI-ready connectivity, Gurudatt Shenoy
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