Cisco vs Hailo Technologies

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Hailo Technologies — Hardware · Acquired · $340M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Cisco Silicon One and Hailo AI accelerators do comparable work on accelerator silicon; Hailo Technologies is acquired, with no independent scale.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 17 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 17 capabilities — Shares AI compute hardware, accelerator silicon and model inference.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship hardware.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoHailo Technologies
Size$433.3B mkt cap$340M raised different basis
Employees86,200—
Founded19842017 33 yrs later
StatusPublicAcquired
CategoryHardwareHardware match
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareDeveloper tool, Hardware
HeadquartersSan Jose, USATel Aviv, Israel

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareModel inference

Not verified for Hailo Technologies · 14

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportData analysisData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyInterconnectModel trainingServer systemsSpeech to textSummarizationThreat detection and responseVoice agentWorkflow automation

Recorded for Cisco. Hailo Technologies’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Cisco · 1

Video analytics

Recorded for Hailo Technologies. Cisco’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Cisco

Hardware

Cisco AI PODsHardware

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 AI PODs for CollaborationHardware

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.

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AIHardware

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.

Cisco Silicon OneHardware

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.

Hailo Technologies

Hardware

Hailo AI acceleratorsHardware

Edge AI processors that run vision and language models on the device rather than in a data centre.

Hailo-10HHardware

Edge AI accelerator for on-device generative AI (LLM/VLM), 40 TOPS INT4, industrial and automotive grades available.

Hailo-15Hardware

AI vision processor for on-camera image processing at the edge.

Hailo-8Hardware

Edge AI accelerator chip (26 TOPS) with fully integrated on-die memory, requiring no external DRAM.

No counterpart

Cisco sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Hailo Technologies yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

AI Assistant for Webex Contact CenterApplication

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.

Cisco AI CanvasApplication

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.

Cisco AI DefenseApplication

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 IQApplication

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.

Webex AI Workforce Engagement ManagementApplication

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.

AI agent

Webex AI AgentAI agent

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.

Hailo Technologies sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Cisco yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Developer tool

Hailo AI Software SuiteDeveloper tool

Compiler, runtime and model zoo that convert a trained model to run on Hailo silicon.