Organization
Cisco
Chip designer · Enterprise software · San Jose, California
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, collaboration, and observability hardware and software. Its AI-related offerings include Silicon One networking silicon for AI data center networks, the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA reference design, and Cisco AI Defense for securing AI applications and models.1234
Key facts
What is and isn’t public
Cisco's Foundation AI team has released open-weight models such as Foundation-Sec-8B, which is derived from Meta's Llama-3.1-8B. This catalog has not assessed those releases.5
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco Silicon One (external site: cisco.com) | Hardware | Programmable routing and switching silicon architecture used in Cisco routers and switches for AI scale-out networks in data centers and between sites, for hyperscalers, service providers, and enterprises.213 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA (external site: cisco.com) | Hardware | Modular reference design built from Cisco AI PODs, NVIDIA-based GPU servers, Cisco or NVIDIA Spectrum-X data center switching, Cisco security products, and Splunk Observability; offered as pre-validated PODs with Cisco Validated Designs or as build-your-own configurations.3 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Cisco AI Defense (external site: cisco.com) | Enterprise software | Security product for AI applications and models that discovers AI assets in use, red-teams AI models, manages AI supply chain risk for models and files, and applies runtime guardrails to production AI applications.41 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Related open artifacts
No open-artifact records in this catalog list Cisco. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.
Notable documented facts
- Foundation AI at Cisco published Foundation-Sec-8B, an open-weight language model for cybersecurity, on Hugging Face on April 28, 2025. The model card says it was built by continued pretraining of Meta's Llama-3.1-8B on cybersecurity text and lists the Apache 2.0 license.5
U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
Cisco Systems, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with principal executive offices in San Jose, California, per the cover page of its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 25, 2026.1
Sources
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