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Cisco's pitch is that enterprises running AI in specialized GPU clouds and at the edge need the same routing, segmentation, and policy controls they already use in SD-WAN, extended to those environments. The article is vendor marketing with no performance, latency, or pricing data, so the claims are unverified. Still, it reflects a real operational problem: AI infrastructure is becoming part of enterprise networks, and how that traffic is governed matters to teams deploying inference and training outside the hyperscalers.

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Cisco AI Transit connects AI environments to your SD-WAN

Cisco BlogsNovember 2, 20266 min read

AI workloads are spreading across specialized cloud environments. Cisco AI Transit is designed to extend the existing SD-WAN fabric to these destinations, helping network teams preserve a common policy model.

AI will run in many places. The enterprise fabric should remain one. Earlier this year at Cisco Live, our team spent an evening talking with several NeoCloud providers alongside colleagues from Cisco’s AI Infrastructure organization. We expected the conversation to revolve around GPUs, AI factories, and inference capacity. Instead, the same request kept surfacing. Their enterprise customers wanted an easier way to connect AI workloads running in these environments into their existing Cisco SD-WAN networks. They weren’t simply asking for another connection. These customers had already built routing, segmentation, security, and application policies into their SD-WAN fabric. They wanted that operating model to extend to AI infrastructure. AI is distributing compute. It shouldn’t fragment the enterprise. The first wave of…

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