Cisco Live 2025 keynote
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
- 1Cisco brought Cisco XDR and Splunk closer together and announced agentic AI applications in security17:50
- 2The first announcement unified the Nexus Dashboard across Nexus OS and ACI fabrics37:55
- 3Cisco extended its AI Defense product and AI safety and security work with NVIDIA40:39
- 4The Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 series for data centers arrives in October, plus a 200 series for branches44:40
- 5Live Protect shields Cisco networking devices from vulnerabilities, starting with Nexus OS47:04
- 6The Deep Network Model is a purpose-built model for network experts58:34
- 7AI Canvas is a generative UI that builds dashboards on the fly to manage the whole estate59:44
Announced
| 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 |
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| Jun 2, 2026 | Cisco Live 2026Chuck Robbins, Jeetu Patel · 2h 1m · 3 announcedAgents, AI infrastructure, Security | Agents, AI infrastructure, Security | Agentic operations with Cisco Cloud Control were set up as the day's central theme | 3 |
About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xriyHdA9t4
- Chuck RobbinsChair and CEO, Cisco
- Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer, Cisco
Companies named: Nvidia, Splunk, Cisco
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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