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
- 17:50
Cisco brought Cisco XDR and Splunk closer together and announced agentic AI applications in security
- 37:55
The first announcement unified the Nexus Dashboard across Nexus OS and ACI fabrics
- 40:39
Cisco extended its AI Defense product and AI safety and security work with NVIDIA
- 44:40
The Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 series for data centers arrives in October, plus a 200 series for branches
- 47:04
Live Protect shields Cisco networking devices from vulnerabilities, starting with Nexus OS
- 58:34
The Deep Network Model is a purpose-built model for network experts
- 59:44
AI Canvas is a generative UI that builds dashboards on the fly to manage the whole estate
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Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xriyHdA9t4
Chuck RobbinsChair and CEO, Cisco
- Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer, Cisco
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
Last changed 2026-09-24.