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Cisco AI PODs for Collaboration

Hardware

by Cisco

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.

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No published prices. The data sheet gives explicit SKUs: AIPOD-COLLAB base appliance (UCSC-C240-M8-CL-G with GPU, UCSC-C240-M8-CL without) plus A-COLLAB-AIPOD-SAL, a Shared AI License subscription billed monthly or yearly, where one license equals one concurrent transcription session. Quotes via Cisco sales.

What it does

• Speech to text
• Server systems
• Model inference

Sources

Pricing

Official documentation · 1 Sep 2026

Sold within

Not found · 30 Sep 2026

Data sheet (Updated June 16, 2026), read in the in-app browser 2026-09-30 (pagetext gets HTTP 403 from cisco.com): "Collaboration AI PODs licenses are available as a subscription, under A-CMS top level SKU with monthly or yearly billing"; its only integration is "Cisco Meeting Server v4.0". Ordering under the Meeting Server subscription SKU places it in that portfolio, but no sentence says a Meeting Server subscription is required or that it is bought on top of one, and no price is published (session ruling; the research proposed optional-add-on by joining a 2023 ordering guide).

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