Cisco vs Uniphore

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Uniphore — Infrastructure · Private · $2.5B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

AI Assistant for Webex Contact Center and Real-time Guidance Agent do comparable work on customer support, speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to handle customer support conversations and turn speech into text; smaller scale (private).

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

9 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

9 of 17 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, customer support, data analysis and 6 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — Uniphore: $2.5B valuation, against Cisco's $433.3B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoUniphore
Size$433.3B mkt cap$2.5B valuation different basis
Employees86,200869 Uniphore has 99× fewer
Founded19842008 24 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryHardwareInfrastructure
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareApplication, Data service, Platform
HeadquartersSan Jose, USAPalo Alto, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 9

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportData analysisData securityModel inferenceSpeech to textSummarizationVoice agentWorkflow automation

Not verified for Uniphore · 8

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyInterconnectModel trainingServer systemsThreat detection and response

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

Not verified for Cisco · 4

HR and recruitingMarketing contentMeeting notesKnowledge retrieval

Recorded for Uniphore. 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

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.

Uniphore

Application

Communication Recording AgentApplication

A cloud-native enterprise communication recording application that captures voice and screen data, marketed as the capture layer that makes conversation data available to AI. It records uncompressed stereo audio with multi-channel support, includes transcription, and provides customizable policy engines for recording, retention, storage and export alongside MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, PCI DSS and GDPR compliance controls.

Conversation Insights AgentApplication

A generative-AI conversational intelligence application that analyses 100% of customer conversations to surface trends, sentiment and actionable insights. It automates QA scoring across all calls rather than manual sampling, and surfaces emerging call drivers beyond predefined categories.

Real-time Guidance AgentApplication

An AI agent-assist application that gives contact centre agents in-call support: pre-call intelligence pulled from CRM and past interactions, knowledge assist that delivers contextual answers without manual search, generative conversation summaries with disposition capture, and sentiment detection. A manager dashboard provides live transcription and real-time performance alerts.

Recruiting AgentApplication

An AI recruiting application that summarises resumes and job descriptions, suggests interview questions, and provides real-time co-pilot guidance to interviewers based on candidate background and role requirements. Generative AI automates the creation of interview questions, summaries and notes.

Sales Interaction AgentApplication

An enterprise sales AI application that analyses the visual, verbal and tonal cues of every sales interaction to surface deal insights and automate administrative work. It provides real-time meeting assistance using emotion AI and generative AI, buyer sentiment and engagement analysis, sales methodology adherence tracking, a searchable sales knowledge base, and AI coaching.

Self-Service AgentApplication

A conversational automation application providing virtual agents across voice and digital channels. It includes emotion AI for sentiment detection and empathetic response, multilingual support with automatic language detection, a no-code conversation designer for business users, and generative-AI training that auto-generates intent phrases.

No counterpart

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

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.

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.

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

Platform

Uniphore Agentic LayerPlatform

Builds and orchestrates enterprise AI agents with visual workflows, an orchestration engine and third-party agent integration.

Uniphore Business AI CloudPlatform

A four-layer enterprise AI platform — data, knowledge, model and agentic layers — meant to unify what a large company already has rather than replace it.

Uniphore Data LayerPlatform

Connects and governs enterprise data for AI without copying it.

Uniphore Knowledge LayerPlatform

Prepares enterprise knowledge for retrieval and model tuning.

Uniphore Marketing AIPlatform

Predicts customer behavior and automates marketing execution.

Uniphore Model LayerPlatform

Manages model inference, fine-tuning and orchestration.

Data service

CDP AgentData service

An AI-first, composable customer data platform that connects to existing data warehouses without migration using a zero-copy architecture. It provides AI-powered audience segmentation, journey orchestration, identity resolution across anonymous and known customers, and omnichannel campaign activation. This is the productised form of the acquired ActionIQ platform.