Cisco Live US 2024 brought together more than 21,000 professionals, business leaders, and partners from around the world to discuss the latest trends, technologies, and solutions in the networking and communications industry.
AI has been in the spotlight all week, and I’ve been talking about how advances in AI are impacting manufacturing, specifically how intelligent industrial IoT networks can help manufacturers reduce downtime, increase production throughput, and improve overall equipment efficiency while improving networking operations and reducing total cost of ownership.
During the product and solutions overview session The Foundation for AI and ML: Cisco Intelligent Industrial IoT Network Improves Uptime, Revenue, Security, and Profitability I delved into the evolution of AI and ML in network automation, asset visibility, and threat defense for manufacturers. Check out the full session or read the highlights below.
AI in network operations
Leveraging AI-driven insights and machine learning, Cisco’s Catalyst Center can detect and prioritize issues before they impact users, automate routine tasks, and provide network administrators with actionable intelligence. Benefits include:
- Continuously monitor your network and devices for up-to-date visibility.
- AI/ML and machine reasoning for root cause analysis, detecting anomalies immediately
- Insights related to telemetry data to accurately identify root causes
- Guided fixes allow for one-click resolutions, closing the loop with automated machine inference.
AI in application operations
With AI-based analytics and automation, Cisco’s application-centric infrastructure can dynamically adapt to application behavior, predict potential performance bottlenecks, and automatically adjust resources to meet demand. This intelligent approach to application management helps manufacturers:
- Lower your total cost of ownership by connecting your IT team to business outcomes with user experience visibility.
- Monitor application performance and correlate it with application infrastructure to optimize business uptime.
- Monitor the performance of traditional hosted hybrid apps and microservices-based cloud native applications.
Cisco Full-Stack Observability enables manufacturers to transform the way they observe, secure, and optimize their applications.
AI in Security Operations
Cisco Cyber Vision provides another level of automated visibility into your industrial network, giving you complete visibility into the security posture of your OT assets. At a time when AI is at the forefront of manufacturing innovation, 48 percent of manufacturers surveyed by Deloitte cited operational risks, including cyberattacks, as the top risk to their smart factory initiatives. Integrating AI allows Cisco’s security solutions to proactively identify and mitigate these potential threats, allowing IT and OT teams to work together to maintain a robust, adaptive defense against the constantly evolving cyber threat landscape.
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