Programmable Silicon to Drive Cisco AI Networking Innovations

This episode is part of a six-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month.AI infrastructure is entering a new phase, and the shift starts at the silicon layer.In this episode, Nick Lippis is joined by Cisco leaders Tom Gillis and Nick Kucharewski to explore how advances in networking silicon are redefining enterprise infrastructure as organizations move from experimentation to production.Programmable silicon, high-performance Ethernet, and distributed system design are enabling a new model where the network becomes the fabric that connects and orchestrates AI workloads across compute, memory, and data. This shift is changing how enterprises think about scale, performance, and control.The conversation also examines how security and observability are moving into the network itself, along with the need for architectural flexibility as enterprises look to build AI-ready environments without hyperscaler complexity.New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified. See you next week!