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Cisco Showcases New Product Innovations

Centered Around AI, Security and Observability
at the 28th Annual Cisco Partner Summit

Cisco Partner Summit 2023 begins
bringing together thousands of Cisco
partners from around the world to network,
learn and celebrate their shared successes
with Cisco. Around 90 percent of Cisco’s
revenue flows through Cisco’s partners,
represented by tens of thousands of
organizations from more than 150
countries. Massive technological shifts are
happening across AI, 5G, cloud, security,
and applications, which are re-shaping
almost every industry across the world.
Now more than ever before, businesses
are leveraging technology to transform
their business and drive outcomes and
experiences for their customers. Through
the power of its platforms, Cisco is enabling
greater simplicity, flexibility and choice for
our customers and partners to accelerate
their digital transformation. Together
with our partners, we are committed to
leading in AI, security, observability and
sustainability, key drivers of our innovation
and joint profitability, all underpinned
by our commitment to securely connect
everything to make anything possible. "We
are thrilled to host Partner Summit 2023,
where our global partner ecosystem will utilization of AI has emerged as a top capabilities and existing IT processes,
come together to discuss how Cisco and its priority for organizations around the world. helping to accelerate customers’ journey to
partners can collectively help customers At the same time, unfamiliar application AI without adding unnecessary risk or new
achieve their business goals," said Jeff stacks and infrastructure patterns create silos of operations. Cisco development
Sharritts, EVP and Chief Customer and challenges for IT teams being asked to partners are seeing significant business
Partner Officer, Cisco. "This event serves support these initiatives. To offer partners value in the Cisco Observability Platform
as a platform to foster collaboration, share the simplest and most scalable solutions and are actively building modules around
insights, and strengthen the bonds between to help customers get their infrastructure five critical themes: Business Insights, SAP,
Cisco and our valued partners. Through AI-ready, Cisco has collaborated with Networking, MLOps and Sustainability.
our collective expertise and resources, we leading ecosystem partners — including This new vendor-agnostic observability
can drive innovations that shape the future NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure ecosystem helps customers fulfill their
of digital transformation and create even Storage and Red Hat — on Cisco Validated specific observability needs, facilitating
greater value for organizations across Designs (CVDs) for AI use cases. These an environment where they can get value
industries and geographies.” Effective solutions build on the success of proven from observable telemetry.

Cisco, Verizon Achieve 1Tbps Speeds Over Long Island Fiber Network

Verizon, along with vendor Cisco, has NCS 2000 line system over a distance of offices. Verizon notes that it has deployed
achieved transmission speeds of 1.2Tbps 205km, traversing 14 fiber central offices. nearly 57,000 route miles of fiber since
over its metro fiber network in Long Island, 800Gbps transmission speeds were 2020, and says it now connects over 51%
New York. A 1Tbps single-wavelength achieved over 305km (via 20 offices), while of its cell sites with its own fiber.
of data was transmitted over the Cisco the 1.2Tbps wavelength traversed three

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