As AI-driven transformation accelerates across industries, enterprises face unprecedented demands on their networks. AI workloads require infrastructure that is not only scalable and high-performing but also secure and easy to manage. This is where Cisco and its Networking App Marketplace partners come together to deliver solutions purpose-built for AI, empowering your customers to modernize their networks and unlock new business value.

Why This Matters to Your Customers

Modern AI applications generate bursty, unpredictable traffic and massive east-west data flows that legacy networks struggle to handle. Without a network designed for these demands, customers risk performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and operational complexity that slow innovation and impact user experience.

By adopting Cisco's AI-Ready Secure Network Architecture combined with partner solutions from the Cisco Networking App Marketplace, customers gain:

• Scalability and Performance: Purpose-built hardware such as Smart Switches with ultra-low latency, Wi-Fi 7 access points optimized for dense AI-device environments, and Secure Routers with integrated SD-WAN and quantum-ready encryption ensure networks can handle AI workloads requiring high throughput and low latency.
• Security Fused into the Network: Embedded quantum-safe secure boot, post-quantum encryption, and AI-aware segmentation protect AI-driven environments at machine speed, safeguarding critical data and applications.
• Operational Simplicity Powered by AI: Unified management platforms, AI assistants, and automation tools enable scalable deployment, configuration, and assurance of AI-ready devices from campus to branch, reducing complexity and accelerating time to value.

How Key Cisco Networking App Marketplace Partners Drive This Capability

Several partners in the Cisco Networking App Marketplace provide innovative solutions that enhance automation, network modernization, security, and performance optimization tailored for AI-driven environments:

• Boundless and Red Hat Ansible: Automate network configuration, deployment, backups, and orchestration at scale across campus and branch environments, enabling rapid scaling and operational resilience critical for AI workloads.
• Hamina and Ekahau: Deliver AI-driven wireless planning and assurance tools that optimize Wi-Fi 7 network design and performance. Their predictive modeling and real-time analytics ensure high-density, low-latency wireless environments essential for scalable AI device connectivity in campus and branch settings.
• Everyangle and VAPP: Provide scalable monitoring and computer vision applications leveraging AI to enhance business operations and deliver actionable insights across enterprise environments.
• PagerDuty and ServiceNow: Enable Autonomous Operations (AIOps) that shift networks from manual troubleshooting to AI-driven autonomy, accelerating incident response, automating remediation, and reducing operational overhead across campus and branch environments.

The Cisco Networking App Marketplace Ecosystem: A Growing Opportunity

These partners and their applications are part of a vibrant ecosystem of over 350 validated applications designed to expand and enhance Cisco networking platforms such as Meraki, Catalyst Center, Catalyst SD-WAN, ThousandEyes, Cisco ISE, and Cisco Spaces. Many leverage AI techniques like machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision to provide predictive analytics, anomaly detection, performance optimization, and AI-driven insights.

The marketplace is continuously growing, with new partners and applications added quarterly, enabling you to offer customers scalable, secure, and AI-powered networking solutions from campus to branch environments.

Why This Is a Mutually Beneficial Revenue Opportunity

Helping customers modernize their networks for AI is not just a technology upgrade-it's a strategic business transformation. By positioning yourself as a trusted advisor delivering Cisco's AI-Ready Secure Network Architecture combined with innovative partner solutions, you can:

• Win larger, more strategic deals with higher value and longer-term engagements.
• Deepen customer relationships by addressing critical AI-driven business challenges.
• Differentiate your offerings with a comprehensive, integrated solution portfolio.
• Tap into a rapidly expanding market driven by AI adoption and network modernization.

Get Started Today

Empower your customers to build the foundation for their AI-powered future with Cisco and the Cisco Networking App Marketplace partners. Explore the full range of AI-ready solutions and discover how you can accelerate your business growth by visiting the Cisco Networking App Marketplace.

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