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Cisco Bets it All On AI At Cisco Live | Tech Field Day News Rundown: June 18, 2025
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Cisco Live was last week and the opening keynote was dripping with AI. Cisco's product lineup for the rest of the year and into the future is going to embrace AI agents and information for networking operations and security as well. CEO Chuck Robbins and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel talked all about the integration of AI into their offerings. From dashboards to NVIDIA networking technology Cisco is pushing AI into the infrastructure. One of the big discussions was around AgenticOps, the Cisco term for agent-based network operations. They also discussed how they would help build the AI data centers for the future with pod-based architectures and more.
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0:00 - Cold Open
0:27 - Welcome to the Tech Field Day News Rundown
1:23 - Google Cloud Breaks the Internet
5:48 - IonQ Acquires Oxford Ionics for $1.08 Billion
10:27 - Synopsys & Plug and Play Democratize Chip Design Tools
14:41 - Microsoft and CrowdStrike Unite to Simplify Threat Names
19:01 - Cribl Copilot Automates Telemetry Normalization
23:55 - Todd Nightingale Named COO at Arista
28:19 - Cisco Bets it All On AI At Cisco Live
39:56 - The Weeks Ahead
40:46 - Thanks for Watching the Tech Field Day News Rundown
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