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Cisco Live 2025: San Diego: Innovations, IT solutions and emerging tech trends

Chuck Robbins · Jeetu Patel · Jun 10, 2025 · 1h 55m · San Diego, California

Summary

Cisco'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 · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said1:54:49
  1. 17:50

    Cisco brought Cisco XDR and Splunk closer together and announced agentic AI applications in security

  2. 37:55

    The first announcement unified the Nexus Dashboard across Nexus OS and ACI fabrics

  3. 40:39

    Cisco extended its AI Defense product and AI safety and security work with NVIDIA

  4. 44:40

    The Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 series for data centers arrives in October, plus a 200 series for branches

  5. 47:04

    Live Protect shields Cisco networking devices from vulnerabilities, starting with Nexus OS

  6. 58:34

    The Deep Network Model is a purpose-built model for network experts

  7. 59:44

    AI Canvas is a generative UI that builds dashboards on the fly to manage the whole estate

Announced

AnnouncedUnified Nexus DashboardNexus OS and ACI fabrics together
ComingCisco Secure Firewall 6100 and 200 seriesAvailable in October
AnnouncedLive ProtectVulnerability shielding, starting with Nexus OS
AnnouncedDeep Network ModelModel for network operations
AnnouncedAI CanvasGenerative UI for AgenticOps

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xriyHdA9t4

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Sources

Photos: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Washington D.C, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Companies named: Nvidia, Splunk, Cisco

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