Overview
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is a networking and IT infrastructure company. Cisco's IoT division provides networking for industrial automation, Connected vehicles, and robotics. Makes strategic investments via Cisco Investments in networking, security, and edge computing for autonomous systems.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Industrial automation networking
AI-ready industrial networks
Data & sources
Web sources
6
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Cisco Systems has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amphenol1× joint
- 2NVIDIA1× joint
- 3NVIDIA1× joint132 total
- 4ServiceNow1× joint
- 5TE Connectivity1× joint
Most recent
- NVIDIA x Cisco (USFP optics)2026-10-12with NVIDIAjust announced
- Cisco x ServiceNow (AI Security)2025-04-28with ServiceNowjust announced
- Cisco x NVIDIA (Secure AI Factory)2025-02-25with NVIDIAoperating
Cisco Systems on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Chuck Robbins Chair & CEO
Founders (2)
- Leonard Bosack
- Sandy Lernerno longer at company
Former / Previously (2)
- Leonard Bosack Co-founder
- Sandy Lerner Co-founder
Media (1)
Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Cisco Systems.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Cisco Systems on the data-center map
Every verified data center Cisco Systems operates that has a mapped coordinate (3 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
Cisco Systems data centers (3)
- Cisco Allen Data Center (Metro Virtual Data Center)Allen · operating
- Cisco Richardson Data CenterRichardson · operating
- Cisco Research Triangle Park (RTP) Data CenterDurham · 2.8 MW
AI data centers Cisco Systems operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
Cisco Systems in third-party press
Mentioned on (18)
Registry pages whose text names Cisco Systems.
Companies (4)
Partnerships
3 total · 1 operating · 2 just announced
Every company Cisco Systems has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- NVIDIA x Cisco (USFP optics)2026-10-12with NVIDIAjust announced
- Cisco x ServiceNow (AI Security)2025-04-28with ServiceNowjust announced
- Cisco x NVIDIA (Secure AI Factory)2025-02-25with NVIDIAoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amphenol1× joint
- 2NVIDIA1× joint
- 3NVIDIA1× joint132 total
- 4ServiceNow1× joint
- 5TE Connectivity1× joint
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Cisco x ServiceNow (AI Security)withServiceNowtechnology2025-04-28just announced
- Cisco x NVIDIA (Secure AI Factory)withNVIDIAtechnology2025-02-25operating
- technology2026-10-12announcedjust announced
Timeline
Every recorded move in Cisco Systems’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipCisco x ServiceNow (AI Security)
2025-04-28Cisco and ServiceNow deepened their 7-year partnership to integrate Cisco AI Defense with ServiceNow SecOps for holistic AI risk management. The integration provides visibility, vulnerability management, real-time protection, incident response, and governance for enterprise AI applications.
PartnershipCisco x NVIDIA (Secure AI Factory)
2025-02-25Cisco and NVIDIA are co-developing a unified AI data center architecture combining Cisco Silicon One and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platforms. Cisco is building data center switches with NVIDIA Spectrum silicon, available through Cisco Nexus, Hyperfabric, and UCS product lines.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 23, 2026
Cisco Systems logo
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (6)
- https://www.cisco.com/
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Verticals/Industrial_Automation/IA_Horizontal/DG/Industrial-AutomationDG/Industrial-AutomationDG.html
- https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Verticals/Industrial_Automation/Manufacturing_AI/AI_ready_industrial_networks.pdf
- https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2026/m10/nvidia-and-cisco-new-pluggable-optics-to-scale-ai-factories.html · 2026-10-12
- https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ocp-global-summit-vera-rubin-scale-ai-factories/ · 2026-10-12
- https://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-and-nvidia-announce-usfp-expanding-the-path-to-ai-connectivity · 2026-10-12
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Methodology: Verified · 6 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 6
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Cisco Systems.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Cisco Systems from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Copper’s days are numbered inside AI racks as Cisco bets on optics
AI infrastructure networking is approaching a physical turning point as the copper links that tie GPUs together inside a rack strain under ever-faster signaling speeds. The move…
Cisco’s OCP message: The network is now AI’s critical path, and openness is the price of admission
For most of its history, Cisco Systems Inc. won by building vertically integrated network products and asking customers to buy all of it. The company did very well with that…
Cisco scales programmable AI network capacity with new silicon and repluggable optics innovations
Cisco Systems Inc. took to the stage at the annual Open Compute Project Global Summit today, unveiling a new suite of open silicon and optical networking systems as it delivered…
At WebexOne, Cisco’s Jeetu Patel argues the agent era will be won on context, cost and control
For as long as Cisco Systems Inc. has held its WebexOne event, the show has aimed to drive thought leadership in the collaboration industry. This year, with artificial…
Cisco broadens agentic features in Webex collaboration platform
Cisco Systems Inc. today detailed a broad expansion of its Webex collaboration portfolio that brings artificial intelligence agents into team conversations, connects office…
LeapXpert brings governed WhatsApp client messaging into Cisco’s Webex
Governed communications startup LeapXpert Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled an integration that lets Webex users message clients on WhatsApp without leaving the…
Decades of DIY best-of-breed give way to pretested stacks as AI raises integration risk
As enterprises push AI out of pilots and into production, FlexPod, the converged infrastructure franchise built by NetApp Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., is being recast as a…
Old Dogs, New Tech: 3 Legacy Stocks Powering the AI Boom
Corning, Cisco Systems, and Texas Instruments are repositioning around AI infrastructure needs, showing earnings growth, steady margins, dividends, and Moderate Buy analyst…
Cisco Talos finds malware that puts its next move to a four-model vote
Cisco Systems Inc.’s Talos Threat Intelligence group today released an open-source toolkit for hunting malware that has artificial intelligence built into it. The first sample it…
Trust becomes the product: Five takeaways from the Splunk .conf26 keynotes
In Denver this week, Cisco Systems Inc. and its Splunk unit made a bet that the scarcest resource in the agentic enterprise isn’t intelligence or graphics processing units — it’s…
ClickFix moves into the browser and onto WebDAV, Cisco Talos finds
Cisco Systems Inc.’s Talos Threat Intelligence group today detailed two ClickFix campaigns that push the technique past the copy-and-paste PowerShell prompt it is known for, one…
Broadcom and Cisco tie AI factory deployment to workload needs
AI factory deployment is becoming a workload-sizing exercise rather than a custom infrastructure project. Enterprises need infrastructure spanning edge inference and large-model…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/cisco.md
- RSS feed: /companies/cisco/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/e39f5207-7d3a-46b4-ac7a-64fd4898d5fe
- Revision history: /companies/cisco/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Cisco Systems draws attention at the 84th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 3, 2026