Cisco Live 2025
Jun 10, 2025 · San Diego, California · Cisco Live 2026
Explore Cisco Live 2025 San Diego: Innovations, IT Solutions & Emerging Tech TrendsJun 10, 2025 · 1h 55m · Chuck Robbins, Jeetu PatelCisco's 2025 keynote was about infrastructure for the agentic era: a unified Nexus Dashboard, new secure firewalls, Live Protect vulnerability shielding, AI safety work with NVIDIA, and AgenticOps, including a purpose-built Deep Network Model and AI Canvas, a generative interface for running the network.
Key themes: Agents, Security, AI infrastructure
- 1Cisco brought Cisco XDR and Splunk closer together and announced agentic AI applications in security
- 2The first announcement unified the Nexus Dashboard across Nexus OS and ACI fabrics
- 3Cisco extended its AI Defense product and AI safety and security work with NVIDIA
- 4The Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 series for data centers arrives in October, plus a 200 series for branches
- 5Live Protect shields Cisco networking devices from vulnerabilities, starting with Nexus OS
- 6The Deep Network Model is a purpose-built model for network experts
- 7AI Canvas is a generative UI that builds dashboards on the fly to manage the whole estate
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Unified Nexus DashboardNexus OS and ACI fabrics together | Announced |
| Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 and 200 seriesAvailable in October | Coming |
| Live ProtectVulnerability shielding, starting with Nexus OS | Announced |
| Deep Network ModelModel for network operations | Announced |
| AI CanvasGenerative UI for AgenticOps | Announced |
Sources: official keynote videos, their captions and the hosts' recaps, summarized by AI; watch the source for exact wording. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.