Cisco kicked off Cisco LIVE 2023, the premier networking and security event that brought together the global Cisco community to showcase the latest innovations and inspire attendees to strive for a more inclusive future for all. This year’s event welcomed close to 20,000 attendees in-person, with almost one million more tuning in from around the world via a live-streamed digital event, Cisco LIVE 2023 was Cisco’s most impactful conference to date.
During Cisco Live, new technologies and product advancements were showcased across networking, security, collaboration, and optimized applications offerings. In addition, the company unveiled its vision to achieve a more unified experience for customers and partners by accelerating its move to platforms and cloud—dramatically simplifying across its product portfolio.
The new technologies introduced highlighted Cisco’s commitment to simplify and elevate user experiences. Technologies announced included:
• Cisco Networking Cloud: With simplification at its core, the Cisco Networking Cloud vision details how Cisco will deliver a single platform experience for seamlessly managing all networking domains. The Cisco Networking cloud will be the powerful and intelligent platform to proactively manage the network, eliminate silos, assure performance, and reduce human workload.
• Cisco Security Enhancements: New Cisco Secure Access (a security service edge, SSE, solution) offers frictionless access across any location, any device, and any application through one platform. Cisco’s new Secure Firewall 4200 provides seamless connected experiences at the office or on the road, alongside Cisco Multicloud Defense, which leads the way to security in any environment.
• Cloud Native Application Security: Enhanced capabilities coming to Panoptica that will provide full cloud native application lifecycle protection from code, through development, to production runtime in today’s distributed, multicloud environments.
• Full-Stack Observability (FSO): Cisco announced general availability of its FSO Platform, allowing customers to develop and grow a robust application ecosystem built on an open, extensible architecture. This includes new and unique use cases in a single consumption model. Additionally, Cisco’s new bi-directional integration between AppDynamics and ThousandEyes drives powerful customer digital experience monitoring and closes observability gaps with rapid actionable recommendations and insights.
• Generative AI-powered Security and Hybrid Work Capabilities: New generative AI-powered summarization capabilities in Webex by Cisco will increase productivity and elevate customer experience. In addition, new AI capabilities in Cisco Security Cloud will remove complexity, simplify policy management, and improve threat response. To support Cisco’s continued advancements in AI capabilities for hybrid workspaces, Cisco is announcing the Room Bar Pro, with the most powerful processor and able to be deployed across customers’ most commonly used workspaces.
Cisco Propels Customer and Partner Innovations
New offerings unveiled at Cisco Live directly address key challenges our customers and partners face and unlock their ability to create and deliver their own innovations, using Cisco’s industry-leading platforms and technologies.
At Cisco Live, together with customers and partners, Cisco showcased the following:
• The Cisco Stadium: Here in the epicenter of entertainment, Cisco showcases how it is powering seamless fan experiences in stadiums around the world. Attendees are invited to referee a game and try out instant replay technology to “make the call.”
• Autonomous Living Project: Ignite Technology and Launchcode have teamed up with our Country Digital Acceleration Program (CDA) and Cisco Innovation Labs to turn the dream of independent living into a reality for people with diverse abilities. Visitors will take an interactive home tour to see how smart technology makes it happen.
• Smart Building Technology: A joint solution with Schneider Electric that provides building owners and facility managers with more visibility to control and optimize energy, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to help reduce energy usage and carbon emissions in the buildings sector.
Cisco Continues to Deliver Sustainability, and AI Solutions
During Cisco LIVE, Cisco highlighted how—together with its partners—it is helping customers accelerate progress toward their sustainability goals. The company also unveiled new, powerful generative AI technology that will help organizations drive productivity and simplicity for their workforce.
