Simplify AI to meet your business needs
Trusted, high-performance AI from a cloud-managed, full-stack AI infrastructure that is compliant with NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architectures (RA)
Deploy AI with a single click
Accelerate your AI future
Cisco and NVIDIA have partnered on an integrated full-stack Ethernet solution aligned with NVIDIA Enterprise RA, simplifying and reducing costs for building and managing AI infrastructure.
Build your AI infrastructure faster
Achieve your AI goals quickly with a streamlined experience based on validated designs to eliminate risk.
Scale your AI journey with confidence
With the unparalleled agility of this cloud-managed solution, you're always equipped for future growth. Easily scale and adjust AI infrastructure as your needs evolve.
Innovate with trusted infrastructure
Focus on innovation and strategic initiatives—not tedious manual tasks—while building your AI infrastructure using optimized lifecycle management.
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric offerings for AI
BYO AI with Nexus Hyperfabric
Empower your AI innovation with a cloud-managed network fabric that seamlessly works with your existing compute, GPU, and storage resources.
Key components:
- Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric cloud-managed controller
- Cisco 6000 Series Switches with 800G Ethernet and Cisco Silicon One
- Network fabric managed via cloud controller
Nexus Hyperfabric AI
Accelerate AI innovation with a cloud-managed, on-premises, full-stack solution that simplifies deployment and management while delivering a high-performance AI infrastructure.
Key components:
- Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric cloud-managed controller
- Cisco 6000 Series Switches with Silicon One technology for AI workloads
- 800 GbE backend fabric with low-latency, lossless networking
- UCS C885A M8 Rack Server and NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, starting with NVIDIA H200 SXM with NVLink
- NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs and BlueField-3 SuperNIC
- Integration with optional VAST Data Platform for scalable, multi-tenant, zero-trust, all-flash storage
- Cloud-delivered software upgrades with user-driven update schedules
- Assertion-based monitoring, telemetry, and real-time health checks spanning network to compute NIC
Cisco AI Networking in data centers
Redefine data center networks with AI innovations
Experience fast, secure, end-to-end Ethernet connectivity with AI-ready data center networking at scale with intelligence and operational simplicity—everywhere.
Cisco AI PODs
Accelerate enterprise AI infrastructure with AI PODs
Cisco Hyperfabric for AI solutions are network deployment models for Cisco’s AI PODs and building blocks for Cisco’s Secure AI Factory. With AI PODs, you can deploy AI faster and scale with ease using a modular infrastructure built for flexibility and simplicity. Streamline operations and accelerate positive results.
FAQs for Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI is a cloud-managed full stack AI infrastructure solution delivered as hardware + software + service. Using a cloud controller managed by Cisco, customers easily design, deploy, and manage their network fabric, GPU servers, and storage servers. It reinvents the IT operations lifecycle of the AI infrastructure in the data center by simplifying every step of the process and ensures repeatable and predictable outcomes by IT generalist, application, and DevOps teams. The vertical stack solution consists of purpose-built hardware, software, cloud management, Day-2 automation, and Cisco support. Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI is best suited for customers looking to build out their private cloud AI infrastructure.
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI is a complete, turnkey solution designed for ease of deployment and accelerated day-2 value. It is standards-based and will interoperate with existing data-center fabrics connected, for example, through border gateways. As a turnkey solution, Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI will run only on specific Cisco hardware, and only that hardware can be part of a Nexus Hyperfabric AI cluster.
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI consists of five primary components:
- Cloud Controller: a scalable, globally distributed multitenant cloud service that is used to design, plan, control, upgrade, and monitor fabrics using a browser or APIs known as Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric.
- Cisco 6000 Series Switches: installed with Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI–managed software, they connect to the cloud for centralized real-time visibility and control.
- Cisco UCS® NVIDIA GPU/DPU Servers: Cisco UCS-C885A-M8-CN1 server that packs 8 NVIDIA H200 GPUs, with BlueField-3 DPU (3240H) and SuperNIC (3140H) connected using Cisco® optics that can efficiently run training/inferencing/fine-tuning jobs.
- UCS-VAST Storage (Optional): Cisco UCS-C225-M8N-1P servers pack 8 drives with each of the servers with a cluster consisting of 11 servers that can be easily expanded. The specs start with 1PB of storage that can be used for training, fine-tuning, inferencing, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and other data engineering work.
- NVAIE: Integration and access to the NVIDIA AI for Enterprise (NVAIE) software stack from get-go allows access to different model training software and data catalogues so that engineers and scientists can get started immediately.
Closing the infrastructure gap in enterprise AI
Enterprise AI demands more than GPUs. Cisco delivers integrated, secure, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
Unleashing the Power of AI in the Enterprise
Cisco and NVIDIA deliver flexible, enterprise-ready AI solutions for every stage of the AI journey.
Leading the Future of AI
Cisco AI Networking is an essential infrastructure solution for advanced data center buildouts, unifying frontend and backend connectivity through standards-based Ethernet. This approach delivers exceptional scale, intelligence, and operational simplicity.