Nvidia and Cisco push the enterprise AI factory into the rack-scale era
The Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia has been extended into the rack-scale era, offering enterprises greater full-stack operational capabilities as a result. Designed to give customers a framework for deploying artificial intelligence across their entire infrastructure, Secure AI Factory with Nvidia from Cisco Systems Inc. now integrates rack-to-fabric liquid cooling supporting systems beyond…
Cisco Systems Inc. has expanded its Secure AI Factory in partnership with Nvidia into the rack-scale era, providing enterprises with enhanced full-stack operational capabilities. The integration of rack-to-fabric liquid cooling systems for racks handling over 200 kilowatts of power enables reasoning, agentic AI, and training of trillion-parameter models.
The latest enhancements include Nvidia Spectrum-X switch silicon combined with Cisco's NX-OS or SONiC operating systems, allowing customers to utilize Nvidia Cloud Partner-compliant and Cisco Silicon One-based architectures. Will Eatherton, senior vice president and head of networking engineering at Cisco, explained that the combination of Spectrum silicon and NX-OS/SONiC is used to connect GPUs at the front end, while Cisco Silicon One with similar software is employed for high-performance networking with storage.
Marc Hamilton, vice president of solutions architecture and engineering at Nvidia, emphasized that the partnership is not just about a rack-scale solution but a comprehensive AI factory-wide solution. As enterprises deploy AI in manufacturing floors and shopping aisles, Cisco and Nvidia aim to supply the operational foundation necessary for this model.
The reference architecture incorporates Cisco's Nexus One for open, unified networking management and the Cisco Cloud Control platform for agentic IT, providing a common management layer and software, sales, and support for the entire cluster.
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