Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced a partnership with Super Micro Computer to expand its AI infrastructure offerings through the Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA portfolio. The collaboration will integrate Supermicro's liquid- and air-cooled server systems into Cisco's AI architecture, targeting enterprise, neocloud, and sovereign cloud customers.
The partnership leverages NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) compliant architecture, combining Cisco's Silicon One-based switches for front-end operations with NVIDIA Spectrum-X switches for back-end tasks, unified via Cisco Nexus One. Supported platforms include NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 for AI training and inference workloads. Cisco noted it is the sole NVIDIA technology partner using its own networking switches and network operating system in an NCP-compliant solution.
The integrated solution combines NVIDIA AI Enterprise software with Cisco Cloud Control for infrastructure management and observability across compute, network interface cards, optics, and network performance metrics. Cisco will also introduce Cisco Validated Infrastructure Services (CVIS), aligned with NVIDIA Infrastructure Services, to certify infrastructure deployment. A dedicated large-scale AI Lab will be established to develop testing tools and software for CVIS.
Cisco plans to begin offering Supermicro compute solutions as part of the Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA in October 2026.
