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Cisco

CSCO

Hardware

Networking-hardware and silicon maker building AI-cluster switching and interconnect for data centres, alongside AI-driven security and observability across its networking portfolio.

Total funding—

Market cap$433.3B

Employees86,200

Founded1984

HeadquartersSan Jose, USA

StatusPublic

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Cisco AI Defense Application

  End-to-end AI security product that discovers an organisation's AI assets, red-teams models and applications for vulnerabilities, and enforces runtime guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage.

• Cisco AI PODs Hardware

  Pre-validated modular AI infrastructure bundles that combine Cisco UCS servers, NVIDIA GPUs, Nexus 9000 400G/800G switching and management software into single orderable stacks for AI inferencing, training and fine-tuning.

• Cisco Silicon One Hardware

  Unified programmable networking-silicon architecture for AI, hyperscale, data-centre, service-provider and enterprise routing/switching, spanning five series (G/P/E/K/A) of chip families.

Inside Cisco Cloud Control

• Cisco AI Canvas Application Included with the parent

  AgenticOps workspace where teams and AI agents collaborate to investigate, correlate and resolve issues across domains: natural-language querying, multi-step agent workflows, shared real-time visibility, and native Cisco plus third-party tool integration via Cloud Control Studio.

Inside Cisco Meeting Server

• Cisco AI PODs for Collaboration Hardware

  Turnkey on-premises AI appliance that runs real-time speech transcription for Cisco collaboration deployments locally, for customers with data-sovereignty requirements that rule out cloud AI services.

Inside Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric

• Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI Hardware Included with the parent

  Cloud-managed full-stack AI cluster sold as hardware plus software plus service, packaging Cisco 6000 and N9300 series switches on an 800GbE back-end fabric, UCS servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and BlueField DPUs, optional VAST storage and NVIDIA AI Enterprise under the Hyperfabric cloud controller.

Inside Cisco Support and Professional Services

• Cisco IQ Application Included with the parent

  Agentic support intelligence delivered inside Cisco Support and Professional Services — 'the delivery vehicle for everything Cisco Support and Professional Services knows about your environment, made continuously available before you ask for it' — generally available as SaaS since April 2026 and included with existing support contracts.

Inside Webex Contact Center

• Webex AI Agent AI agent Paid add-on to the parent

  Autonomous customer-service AI agent that handles inquiries conversationally across voice, SMS, email, chat and messaging apps and escalates to a human agent with context when it cannot resolve.

• AI Assistant for Webex Contact Center Application Paid add-on to the parent

  AI assistant for contact-centre agents and supervisors that produces call and transfer summaries, live transcription, suggested chat replies, topic analytics, automatic CSAT scoring and agent burnout signals.

• Webex AI Workforce Engagement Management Application

  AI-native workforce engagement suite for contact centres that forecasts demand and optimises shifts, uses NLP and LLMs to evaluate 100 percent of human and AI agent interactions (AI Quality Management), and runs performance coaching and AI-led onboarding simulations.

Closest alternatives 9

ANArista NetworksPublic · $246.4BArista's FY2016 10-K names Cisco as the market's dominant incumbent in data-centre networking, the category both now sell AI-cluster fabric into.2 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandNamed in filingConnect AI clustersCompareMTMarvell TechnologyPublic · $214.9B2 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandNamed in filingConnect AI clustersCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1T12 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleNamed in filingBuy data-centre AI computeConnect AI clustersCompareBBroadcomPublic · $1.7TIEEE ComSoc technology blog, naming Cisco Silicon One and Broadcom Tomahawk 6 as directly competing AI switch silicon.4 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleSourced competitorConnect AI clustersCompareNNiCEPublic · $6.5B9 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleNamed in filingHandle customer support conversationsCompareFFortinetPublic · $124.8B6 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandNamed in filingDetect and respond to security threatsComparePAPalo Alto NetworksPublic · $302.9BCisco FY2026 Form 10-K (fiscal year ended 2026-07-25), Competition section.7 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandNamed in filingDetect and respond to security threatsCompareOOraclePublic · $454.4B10 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandNamed in filingBuy data-centre AI computeCompareEElasticPublic · $10.2BCisco named as owner of AppDynamics/Splunk.6 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleNamed in filingDetect and respond to security threatsCompare

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both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; same layer and the same scale band (large-cap).5 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareCCore42PrivateCisco AI PODs for Collaboration and Core42 Sovereign Public Cloud both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded; ships API service and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.4 of 17 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRespeecherPrivate · $4M raisedWebex AI Agent and Respeecher Text-to-Speech API do comparable work on voice agent; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; similar scale (private).1 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHelsingPrivate · $18BCisco AI Defense and Cirra do comparable work on threat detection and response; smaller scale (private).3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareFAFiddler AIPrivate · $100M raisedCisco AI Defense and Fiddler AI Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance do comparable work on guardrails and safety; similar scale (private).3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRSRosetta StoneAcquiredAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and Rosetta Stone Sapphire do comparable work on speech to text; Rosetta Stone is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOtter.aiPrivateAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and OtterPilot do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Otter.ai's scale not recorded.1 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BCisco AI PODs and Baidu Baige AI Computing Platform do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (public).5 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareIInception42PrivateAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and Insight do comparable work on summarization; Inception42's scale not recorded.4 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHFHugging FacePrivate · $4.5BCisco AI PODs and Hugging Face Jobs do comparable work on AI compute hardware and model training; smaller scale (private).3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareDDXPrivateAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and DX AI do comparable work on summarization; DX's scale not recorded.5 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKuaishouPublic · $18.6BAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and CyberCut do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; smaller scale (public).3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareCConsensusPrivate · $45M raisedAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and Consensus do comparable work on summarization; similar scale (private).1 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHAHume AIPrivateWebex AI Agent and Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) do comparable work on voice agent; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; Hume AI's scale not recorded.3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and Fireworks Speech Recognition do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; smaller scale (private); ships API service and model API rather than the same layer.4 of 17 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleComparePPerplexityPrivate · $20.4BOverlaps on agent orchestration, summarization and workflow automation; smaller scale (private).3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSSmartsheetPrivate · $8.4BAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and Smartsheet AI do comparable work on summarization; smaller scale (private).3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareCCartesiaPrivateAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and Sonic / Ink do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Cartesia's scale not recorded; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 17 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKEKakao EnterprisePrivateCisco AI PODs and AI Insight both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Kakao Enterprise's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and platform rather than the same layer.3 of 17 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAssemblyAIPrivate · $115M raisedAI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and AssemblyAI Universal Speech-to-Text API do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; similar scale (private); ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 17 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRunwayPrivate · $5.3BCisco AI PODs and Runway Video Model Licensing do comparable work on model training; smaller scale (private).3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareNGNebius GroupPublic · $61.6BCisco AI PODs and Nebius AI Cloud do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (public); ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 17 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompare

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Incorporated in California, December 1984.

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