Cisco Live EMEA 2026 in Amsterdam was the scene for the tech giant’s latest infrastructure, security, and collaboration updates and new products that will fuel AI use cases, data center environments, and the workplace of the future, according to Cisco.
Cisco took to the stage at Cisco Live EMEA 2026 to roll out major infrastructure, security, and collaboration updates aimed squarely at powering AI use cases, data center environments, and the next-generation workplace.
At the center of those announcements were a plethora of networking innovations, including the new Cisco Silicon One G300, a 102.4 Tbps programmable switching chip designed for gigawatt‑scale AI clusters supporting training, inference, and real‑time agentic workloads, as well as the next‑generation Nexus 9000 and Cisco 8000 Ethernet systems, along with new optics, which Cisco said will improve energy efficiency by nearly 70 percent.
Beyond silicon, Cisco expanded its AI networking and security portfolio with enhancements to its Nexus One data center networking offering and revealed what the company called the biggest update yet to its AI Defense and SASE offerings. Not to be outdone by networking and security, Cisco also unveiled new AI‑ready collaboration devices, including the Room Kit Pro G2 and Desk Pro G2—along with real‑time speech translation in Webex that preserves tone and emotion. The new products will be available and shipping throughout this calendar year, according to San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco.
Here’s a roundup of the new products and innovations that are taking center stage at Cisco Live EMEA 2026 this week in Amsterdam.
Cisco Silicon One G300
The new Cisco Silicon One G300 102.4 Tbps programmable switching silicon has been designed to power gigawatt-scale AI clusters for training, inference and real-time agentic workloads, while maximizing GPU utilization with a 28 percent improvement in job completion time. The new G300 offers Intelligent Collective Networking, which combines a fully shared packet buffer, path-based load balancing, and proactive network telemetry to offer better performance and profitability for large-scale data centers. The new Silicon One offering will allow customers to “massively” scale out their buildout of AI clusters, according to Cisco.
Powered by the new G300 are the new next generation Cisco N9000 and Cisco 8000 fixed and modular Ethernet systems, which offer 102.4 Tbps switching speeds in systems designed for hyperscalers, neoclouds, sovereign clouds, service providers and enterprises looking to scale out their AI infrastructure. The new offerings are available as an 100 percent liquid cooled design that, along with new optics, will let end users improve energy efficiency by close to 70 percent, according to Cisco.
Cisco Silicon One, the company’s scalable and highly programmable unified silicon architecture, first introduced in 2019, is playing critical roles in major networks around the world, according to Cisco.
The Silicon One G300, G300-powered systems will ship this year.
New Optics
As part of its unified networking announcement payload, Cisco took to the event to introduce and enhance a few new optics that will empower AI network builders from the biggest hyperscalers to enterprises, the company said.
This includes the 1.6T OSFP (Octal Small Form-factor Pluggable Optics that will offer customers high performance and reliability, the 800G Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) for greater efficiency for AI scale out networks, and an expanded portfolio of Silicon One P200-powered Systems that build on the introduction of 51.2T systems for hyperscale deployments. The new P200-powered N9000 systems and expanded OS support on 8223 systems offer data center interconnect, universal spine, and core and peer routing capabilities to neoclouds, service providers and enterprises, Cisco said.
The new optics will ship this calendar year, Cisco said.
Cisco Nexus One
Cisco’s Nexus One, its data center networking offering that brings together Cisco’s NX-OS VXLAN EVPN and Cisco ACI fabrics based on open standards and gives users a consistent experience across the two fabrics by way of the Cisco Nexus Dashboard, has been enhanced to drive AI infrastructure forward, the company said.
The two new key features a unified fabric that will let customers deploy fast and adapt their networks as demands shift with built-in automation and customization. Also now built-in is AI job observability and native Splunk integration, the latter of which is coming in March. The integration with Splunk will let customers analyze network telemetry where data resides without having to move it to external platforms. This capability, Cisco said, is essential for sovereign cloud deployments and compliance-sensitive environments.
AI Defense, SASE Updates
In what the company is calling the “biggest-ever” updates to its one-year-old AI Defense offering, alongside advances to its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering, Cisco is boosting its security portfolio with the introduction of AI traffic optimization to keep agentic workflows safe and reliable, the company shared.
AI Defense, introduced last year, safeguards enterprises against the misuse of AI tools, data leakage and increasing cyberthreats. The most recent update to the offering brings AI supply chain governance and runtime protections to agentic tool use, which Cisco said will help lessen the risk of compromise or manipulation.
Along the same security lines, Cisco is also introducing advancements to its SASE offering including intent-aware inspection of agentic AI interactions and tool requests, evaluating the “why” and “how” of agentic traffic to ward off novel threats, and unified policy enforcement across SD-WAN and Security Service Edge (SSE), the company said.
New Collaboration Products And Innovations
The future of work requires next-generation, scalable devices that are ready for AI, Cisco executives said of the collaboration portion of the news announcements from Cisco Live EMEA.
The two new hardware offerings are the Room Kit Pro G2 and Desk Pro G2. The Room Kit Pro is targeted to businesses with large and complex requirements. It has an NVIDIA-based architecture that allows users to hook in multiple cameras, microphones and AV over IP devices seamlessly with just one cable. The Desk Pro G2, meanwhile, is a fit for smaller huddle rooms and smaller spaces. For the first time, Cisco is bringing a dual camera system to the Desk Pro model to give users a view of the speaker as well as an overview of the room at the same time. What sits in the middle, according to Cisco, is an agent that helps people work better. The new translator agent will deliver real-time speech to speech audio translation in all of WebEx audio experiences in real-time so that language will no longer be a barrier. Not only does the agent provide translation in different languages, but it preserves tonal quality, emotion and cadence, Cisco said.
On the contact center side of the house, Cisco is injecting more AI capabilities such as AI-based routing to connect end users to the right AI agent or the right human agent, as well as the ability to do forecasting and scheduling in a mixed workforce in which some calls are handled by humans and other calls are handled by AI, Cisco said.
The Room Kit Pro G2 and Desk Pro G2 will be orderable in Q2 2026, Cisco said.
