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Web Release
2 days ago
- Business
- Web Release
Cisco Powers Secure Infrastructure for the AI Era
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today unveiled new innovations to help companies adapt and transform in the AI era. Enterprises are under pressure to accelerate secure AI adoption and drive value from AI investments. To help organizations meet these opportunities, Cisco continues to reimagine the datacenters and workplaces of the future. 'Cisco is delivering the critical infrastructure for the AI era—secure networks and experiences, optimized for AI that connect the world and power the global economy,' said Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. 'We're witnessing an unprecedented surge in innovation as organizations embrace agentic AI to automate workflows and solve complex problems. Cisco has a rich history of helping companies run their infrastructure; today, we're building on that foundation to power the next generation of AI.' Patrick Milligan, chief information security officer, Ford Motor Company, noted, 'Agentic AI is being used across Ford's business, from design to engineering to manufacturing and for customer support.? As we build, deploy, and manage sophisticated AI capabilities at scale, Cisco's networking and security solutions are an important part of the overall technology infrastructure.' At Cisco Live, Cisco unveiled a wide range of new products and enhancements to help customers navigate the shift to agentic AI, including: Workplaces for the age of AI: Creating an intelligent workplace relies on modern network infrastructure that adapts to increased traffic, ensures always-on access, and delivers robust security. Meanwhile, organizations must empower people to work smarter and more effectively than ever. To meet these demands, Cisco announced new devices to power campus, branch, and industrial networks, and AI-powered unified management to help organizations move past reactive workflows to conducting autonomous, proactive network management. Additionally, Cisco's AI-powered Room Vision PTZ camera transforms meetings for a more cinematic experience. The Jira Workflow Automation in the Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Suite boosts efficiency, while the Webex AI Agent streamlines customer self-service with industry-specific templates. Read more here: The AI-Ready Enterprise: Building the Intelligent Workplace with Cisco Simplified Operations for the age of AI with AgenticOps: Cisco is unveiling multiple AI-driven solutions to empower IT teams with simplicity, and automation, including Cisco AI Canvas, an industry-first generative user interface for real-time collaboration between network and security operations teams, and the Cisco AI Assistant, which provides conversational control across the Cisco suite. Core to the new capabilities is Cisco's Deep Network Model — a domain-specific LLM trained on Cisco's vast knowledge base, including Cisco U. courseware and Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) materials. The result is AI that understands networks and helps IT teams work more efficiently. Read more here: Welcome to the Agentic Era: People + Agents Achieving More, Together Security for the age of AI: Robust security has never been more critical, as enterprises navigate the complexity of a growing number of applications, a highly distributed and mobile workforce, and sophisticated AI-driven threats. Cisco is introducing innovations across its Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) offerings; announced two new Firewalls, the 6100 series and 200 series, providing customers with best-in-class price performance; and unveiled capabilities across the Cisco Security Cloud to help customers meet the challenges of securing agentic AI. Read more here: Making Agentic AI Work in the Real World and Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall: Better Enforcement Points, Smarter Segmentation, and Multi-Vendor Policy Digital Resilience at the Core: Several AI innovations, including enhanced capabilities in Splunk Observability Cloud and Splunk AppDynamics, along with deeper integrations between Cisco and Splunk solutions, are helping customers gain greater visibility into network health and performance. Key updates include a bidirectional integration between Splunk Observability, Cisco ThousandEyes Assurance and Cisco Enterprise Networks, enabling more resilient, insight-driven digital operations. Read more here: Cisco and Splunk Strengthen Enterprise Digital Resilience in the AI Era
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Arista 2.0 Strategy Gaining Traction: Is it the Next Key Growth Driver?
Arista Networks, Inc. ANET is aiming to transform itself into Arista 2.0 cloud and data-driven platforms. The company is benefiting from the expanding cloud networking market, which is led by a strong demand for scalable infrastructure. In addition to high capacity and easy availability, its cloud networking solutions promise predictable performance and programmability, enabling integration with third-party applications for network management, automation and Arista 2.0 strategy is resonating well with customers, with its modern networking platforms being foundational for transformation from silos to centers of data. The strategy comprises three components that are likely to drive growth over the next few years. The first component is focused on plans to invest in core businesses by rolling out new solutions and improved AI (artificial intelligence) offerings. Secondly, Arista aims to emphasize more on software-as-a-service for improved revenue visibility. Last but not least, the company plans to enter adjacent markets to target a broader customer boasts a comprehensive portfolio with the right network architecture for client-to-campus data center cloud and AI networking, backed by three guiding principles. These include the best-in-class, highly proactive products with resilience, zero-touch automation and telemetry with predictive client-to-cloud one-click operations with granular visibility and prescriptive insights for deeper AI algorithms. Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO is the largest player in the networking space. The company has a strong presence in the router and switch market. It has retained a leadership position in WLAN and Ethernet switching and is rapidly expanding its presence in the network security domain. Cisco provides Next-Generation Network Routers that transport data, voice and video information from one IP network to another. It is expanding its Agentic AI footprint with the introduction of Webex AI Agent, Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Contact Center, Workflow Automation in Cisco AI Assistant for Webex, AI Capabilities in Webex Control Hub and Webex Calling Customer Assist. Its strategy of integrating AI across security and collaboration platforms and developing agentic capabilities across the portfolio is a key catalyst for improving customer Networks Inc. JNPR is taking significant steps to enhance the adoption of its AI-Native Networking Platform through the introduction of its Blueprint for AI-Native Acceleration. This comprehensive framework is designed to simplify and accelerate the deployment and utilization of AI-driven networking solutions, benefiting enterprises across various sectors. By leveraging Juniper's AI-Native Networking Platform, organizations can expect up to an 85% reduction in operational expenses and a 90% decrease in network trouble tickets. The platform's industry-leading AIOps technology is key to delivering these results, providing reliable, measurable and secure connections across all devices and applications. The Blueprint for AI-Native Acceleration further enhances these capabilities, enabling customers to achieve up to nine times faster Price Performance, Valuation and EstimatesArista has surged 27.1% over the past year compared with the industry's growth of 36.8% Image Source: Zacks Investment Research From a valuation standpoint, Arista trades at a forward price-to-sales ratio of 13.63, above the industry. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Arista's earnings for 2025 has increased over the past 60 days. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research Arista currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) : Free Stock Analysis Report Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR) : Free Stock Analysis Report Arista Networks, Inc. (ANET) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
Tahawul Tech
16-04-2025
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
Cisco innovates with Agentic AI
Cisco unveiled its vision for agentic AI collaboration, along with new AI-powered collaboration solutions designed to create futureproofed experiences for customers, employees and IT teams. Cisco is driving toward a future where AI anticipates customer and employee needs, addresses challenges, fulfils intent and further enhances productivity for all. New agentic AI innovations include the general availability of the Webex AI Agent for enhanced customer experience. Additional solutions announced across Collaboration Devices and the Webex Suite include new workflows in AI Assistant for Webex Suite to streamline employee experiences, Webex Calling Customer Assist, and AirPlay on Cisco Devices for Microsoft Teams Rooms. 'Enterprises are starting to realise the potential of agentic AI. It is reinventing what it means for people and technology to work together across the physical and digital worlds', said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. 'Our customers love how Webex AI is built seamlessly into the way you work. Working alongside employees increasing efficiency, improving employee sentiment and enhancing overall customer experiences'. Creating Customer Experience Centres with AI Traditional contact centres, primarily reactive in addressing customer inquiries, are evolving into experience centres where every interaction is an opportunity to provide exceptional interactions with customers. Webex is making this possible with the Webex Customer Experience portfolio with tools like AI Agent and AI Assistant for Contact Centre that seamlessly answer customers' questions and integrate with back-office systems for automated intent fulfilment. New AI solutions include: Webex AI Agent: Now generally available, the Webex AI Agent is a 24/7, self-service solution with natural, human-like interactions. It works alongside human agents to answer routine and high-volume customer questions and executes actions to fulfil customer requests, while eliminating the need for queues or wait times. It integrates out of the box with Webex Contact Centre and combines natural sounding conversational intelligence with real-time automation for customers to resolve issues and queries as if they were speaking or messaging with a human. Now generally available, the Webex AI Agent is a 24/7, self-service solution with natural, human-like interactions. It works alongside human agents to answer routine and high-volume customer questions and executes actions to fulfil customer requests, while eliminating the need for queues or wait times. It integrates out of the box with Webex Contact Centre and combines natural sounding conversational intelligence with real-time automation for customers to resolve issues and queries as if they were speaking or messaging with a human. Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Contact Centre: To improve agent and customer service experiences, the generally available Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Contact Centre has new features planned for Q2 2025, including suggested responses and real-time transcription for agents. These will join previously available features including context transfer summaries, dropped call summaries, Agent Wellbeing, topic analytics and automatic customer satisfaction scores (Auto CSAT). Delivering AI-powered Employee Experiences for End Users and IT In today's digital era, employees expect intelligent and efficient collaboration experiences. AI-powered solutions deliver seamless collaboration and bolster productivity for every employee, from the end users who depend on our products daily to the IT professionals who ensure smooth operations. Employees can use some of these tools as they become available later this year to increase their productivity with workflow automation that streamlines routine tasks, easily customise and manage AI capabilities and insights, and more, including: Workflow Automation in Cisco AI Assistant for Webex: This capability in the Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Suite intends to streamline processes and save time by working across enterprise apps like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Jira. This enables users to more efficiently complete tasks and automatically share meeting summaries across enterprise apps. This capability in the Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Suite intends to streamline processes and save time by working across enterprise apps like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Jira. This enables users to more efficiently complete tasks and automatically share meeting summaries across enterprise apps. AI Capabilities in Webex Control Hub: The platform will allow IT admins to easily access, search and manage all AI ecosystems in one place, and to customise them to match their organisation's needs. They will also be able to view analytics on AI usage, trends, and employee adoption metrics within Webex Control Hub. Any employee can be empowered to assist customers with this Webex Calling solution: Webex Calling Customer Assist: This reimagined calling solution aims to empower any employee to assist customers with an AI-powered, modern experience in the Webex app on their desktop or mobile phone. With Customer Assist, local and regional branches including retail stores, bank branches, pharmacies and healthcare clinics can quickly provide great customer experiences, resolve issues and build strong relationships. With the addition of new features available later this year, it intends to provide efficient call routing, AI assistance for agents and supervisors and powerful analytics—all in an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective Webex Calling offering. The Webex ecosystem delivers a seamless integration of AI-driven innovations and collaboration tools, enhancing user experiences with secure, flexible, and rich interactions across workspaces: Apple AirPlay on Cisco Devices will be available soon for Microsoft Teams Rooms, enabling instant wireless content sharing from iPhone, iPad or Mac to Cisco Devices. on Cisco Devices will be available soon for Microsoft Teams Rooms, enabling instant wireless content sharing from iPhone, iPad or Mac to Cisco Devices. Now generally available, Cisco Spatial Meetings allows users to turn any space equipped with a Cisco Room Bar Pro into an immersive studio with Webex for Apple Vision Pro. allows users to turn any space equipped with a Cisco Room Bar Pro into an immersive studio with Webex for Apple Vision Pro. With connectors across many enterprise apps such as Outlook, Salesforce, and ServiceNow —made possible with Glean —users can enhance discussions, search Webex, and speed up decision-making with knowledge graphs and connectors. and —made possible with —users can enhance discussions, search Webex, and speed up decision-making with knowledge graphs and connectors. Native Epic integration for Webex Contact Centre, expected to be in beta this month, will enable contact centre agents to access patient information more easily as they manage interactions within the popular electronic health record (EHR) software. Image Credit: Cisco
Zawya
15-04-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Cisco paves the way with agentic AI collaboration
Furthering Cisco's agentic AI journey, Cisco expands its Collaboration portfolio to include the general availability of Webex AI Agent to improve customer experiences. With new Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Contact Center updates and Webex AI Agent availability, Cisco is transforming contact centers into customer experience centers. New solutions for end users and IT teams include Webex Calling Customer Assist, new features within Webex Control Hub, and new workflow automation solutions for the Cisco AI Assistant for Webex. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Cisco unveiled its vision for agentic AI collaboration, along with new AI-powered collaboration solutions designed to create futureproofed experiences for customers, employees and IT teams. Cisco is driving toward a future where AI anticipates customer and employee needs, addresses challenges, fulfils intent and further enhances productivity for all. New agentic AI innovations include the general availability of the Webex AI Agent for enhanced customer experience. Additional solutions announced across Collaboration Devices and the Webex Suite include new workflows in AI Assistant for Webex Suite to streamline employee experiences, Webex Calling Customer Assist, and AirPlay on Cisco Devices for Microsoft Teams Rooms. 'Enterprises are starting to realize the potential of agentic AI. It is reinventing what it means for people and technology to work together across the physical and digital worlds,' said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. 'Our customers love how Webex AI is built seamlessly into the way you work. Working alongside employees increasing efficiency, improving employee sentiment and enhancing overall customer experiences.' Creating Customer Experience Centers with AI Traditional contact centers, primarily reactive in addressing customer inquiries, are evolving into experience centers where every interaction is an opportunity to provide exceptional interactions with customers. Webex is making this possible with the Webex Customer Experience portfolio with tools like AI Agent and AI Assistant for Contact Center that seamlessly answer customers' questions and integrate with back-office systems for automated intent fulfillment. New AI solutions include: Webex AI Agent: Now generally available, the Webex AI Agent is a 24/7, self-service solution with natural, human-like interactions. It works alongside human agents to answer routine and high-volume customer questions and executes actions to fulfil customer requests, while eliminating the need for queues or wait times. It integrates out of the box with Webex Contact Center and combines natural sounding conversational intelligence with real-time automation for customers to resolve issues and queries as if they were speaking or messaging with a human. Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Contact Center: To improve agent and customer service experiences, the generally available Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Contact Center has new features planned for Q2 2025, including suggested responses and real-time transcription for agents. These will join previously available features including context transfer summaries, dropped call summaries, Agent Wellbeing, topic analytics and automatic customer satisfaction scores (Auto CSAT). Delivering AI-Powered Employee Experiences for End Users and IT In today's digital era, employees expect intelligent and efficient collaboration experiences. AI-powered solutions deliver seamless collaboration and bolster productivity for every employee, from the end users who depend on our products daily to the IT professionals who ensure smooth operations. Employees can use some of these tools as they become available later this year to increase their productivity with workflow automation that streamlines routine tasks, easily customize and manage AI capabilities and insights, and more, including: Workflow Automation in Cisco AI Assistant for Webex: This capability in the Cisco AI Assistant for Webex Suite intends to streamline processes and save time by working across enterprise apps like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Jira. This enables users to more efficiently complete tasks and automatically share meeting summaries across enterprise apps. AI Capabilities in Webex Control Hub: The platform will allow IT admins to easily access, search and manage all AI ecosystems in one place, and to customize them to match their organization's needs. They will also be able to view analytics on AI usage, trends, and employee adoption metrics within Webex Control Hub. Any employee can be empowered to assist customers with this Webex Calling solution: Webex Calling Customer Assist: This reimagined calling solution aims to empower any employee to assist customers with an AI-powered, modern experience in the Webex app on their desktop or mobile phone. With Customer Assist, local and regional branches including retail stores, bank branches, pharmacies and healthcare clinics can quickly provide great customer experiences, resolve issues and build strong relationships. With the addition of new features available later this year, it intends to provide efficient call routing, AI assistance for agents and supervisors and powerful analytics—all in an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective Webex Calling offering. The Webex ecosystem delivers a seamless integration of AI-driven innovations and collaboration tools, enhancing user experiences with secure, flexible, and rich interactions across workspaces: Apple AirPlay on Cisco Devices will be available soon for Microsoft Teams Rooms, enabling instant wireless content sharing from iPhone, iPad or Mac to Cisco Devices. Now generally available, Cisco Spatial Meetings allows users to turn any space equipped with a Cisco Room Bar Pro into an immersive studio with Webex for Apple Vision Pro. With connectors across many enterprise apps such as Outlook, Salesforce, and ServiceNow —made possible with Glean —users can enhance discussions, search Webex, and speed up decision-making with knowledge graphs and connectors. Native Epic integration for Webex Contact Center, expected to be in beta this month, will enable contact center agents to access patient information more easily as they manage interactions within the popular electronic health record (EHR) software.
