Cisco is bringing its whole product portfolio collectively as one workforce, Robbins stated, and the mixed group shall be led by Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s govt vice chairman and chief product officer. Patel beforehand was Cisco’s govt vice chairman and normal supervisor of safety and collaboration. In different management strikes, Jonathan Davidson, govt vice chairman and normal supervisor of Cisco networking, shall be transferring into an advisory position to Robbins.
Cisco is executing deep product integrations throughout its portfolio, and it’s delivering on a platform technique for purchasers, Robbins stated. “With the tempo at which the AI revolution is transferring, and what our enterprise clients want from us, and as safety and networking proceed to develop into extra tightly intertwined, I simply felt prefer it was vital for us to have a single chief,” Robbins stated.
By way of AI, Robbins stated Cisco has seen about $1 billion of AI know-how orders from hyperscaler clients this 12 months, and it expects to see about the identical quantity subsequent 12 months.
“To this point, with three of the highest 4 hyperscalers deploying our Ethernet AI material, leveraging Cisco validated designs for AI infrastructure, we anticipate a further $1 billion of AI product orders in fiscal 12 months ’25,” Robbins stated. “This momentum is being fueled by a number of use circumstances in manufacturing with the hyperscalers, a number of of that are in AI. As well as, we now have a number of design wins with roughly two-thirds of those in AI over and above the webscale AI alternative,” Robbins stated.
As for AI use in enterprise environments, Robbins stated there wasn’t all that a lot but, however “we’re starting to see the enterprise pipeline construct a bit.”
“We heard for the primary time this quarter … that enterprise clients are actually truly upgrading their infrastructure in preparation for AI,” Robbins famous. “And in some circumstances, they’re taking among the {dollars} that they’ve put aside for AI to truly spend it on modernizing their infrastructure in an effort to prepare for that. We consider we’re effectively positioned to be the important thing beneficiary of AI utility proliferation within the enterprise.”