Usha Andra

Passionate about marketing Cloud, Datacenter, Service Provider and Consumer networking products. Always learning. Servant leader. Just be you. Tweets are my own

[Chuck Robbins @ChuckRobbins]

Another Cisco Live is in the books! Thank you to our customers, partners, and employees for a great week.

We shared incredible innovation across Cisco Cloud Control, Live Protect, Cisco IQ, and more, all designed to help customers build, secure, and scale in the AI era, and I’m leaving this week feeling so proud of our teams. Explore the highlights: https://t.co/9iILn79Tvx

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

We’re bridging Kubernetes and the network fabric to deliver powerful visibility and security for AI inferencing. 🌐🤖

⚡ Discover our new end-to-end AI networking innovations.⚡

Read the blog 👇
https://t.co/5ZJpEJ8Y2p

#AINetworking
#Kubernetes
#CiscoLive

[John Furrier @furrier]

Cisco Live is happening the network is bigger than the AI factory node @BobLaliberte @zkerravala @sarbjeetjohal @dvellante

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

Packet-level visibility is your network’s source of truth. Break down silos between SecOps and NetOps with centralized traffic capture using Cisco Nexus Data Broker.

Read the blog to learn how. 🔍
https://t.co/QP42O9DzC8

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

Future-ready scalability starts here. 🚀 See how liquid cooling is transforming AI networking for the modern data center.

Get the details: https://t.co/xmOJ5gWAi8

[Jeetu Patel @jpatel41]

There is such a profound shift occurring in the way that Agents alter our infrastructure requirements.

We are entering a networking supercycle. It’s not because humans are consuming more content. It’s because machines are beginning to think, act, and transact continuously.

Cisco's latest research on AI traffic patterns points to something much bigger than incremental bandwidth growth. Enterprise WAN traffic without agentic AI was projected to grow roughly 2.5x over the next
decade. With agentic AI, that projection jumps to ~9x.

And here’s the craziest part! After following this data closely, I believe even those numbers may prove to be wildly conservative. This is the first time when we have published a study like this where I feel that the projections might be off significantly and what we might think takes a decade happens in 3 years.

Why?

Because most people are still modeling AI like software. It is not. AI behaves more like a new species of digital labor. A SaaS app waits for humans. Agents do not. Agents continuously reason, retrieve, coordinate, negotiate, execute, and loop. At software
speed. Without pause. 7x24. They never get sick. Don’t need a vacation. Dont get tired. Don’t need sleep.

That creates a fundamentally different traffic architecture. The industry spent decades optimizing networks for bursty downloads, video streaming, and
human-paced interactions, almost all of it flowing downstream to a person on the other end.

AI traffic inverts that. A single agentic task can generate 450% more traffic than a human doing the same work.
Roughly 70% of that is inference. And nearly 10% of AI flows now carry more upstream than downstream data, versus 0.5% for typical web traffic, because context continuously moves back into models. Network traffic is not just increasing in bandwidth. It is fundamentally getting reshaped.

This last point matters most. The internet was built as a distribution system for content. AI is turning it into an active system for cognition. The path between agents and models is becoming the spinal cord of intelligence itself. When that path degrades, the agent degrades.

Networking stops being a passive transport layer and
becomes part of the intelligence stack. That changes everything about how we think about resiliency, observability, security, and capacity at the edge. We may be grossly underestimating what is coming. The future will not simply have more users online. It will have trillions of digital coworkers operating continuously on behalf of humans, enterprises, applications, and eventually physical systems.

Humans click.
Agents swarm.

That difference is what creates a supercycle. This supercycle of inference infrastructure will not just be compute bound, but also memory and network bound.

Take a look at the report here: https://t.co/4MCTDiDvC5

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

AI traffic turning networks into bottlenecks? 🤔🚦
Cisco Intelligent Packet Flow integrates Silicon One G300 Intelligent Collective Networking to evolve the fabric into a proactive, AI‑first system for bursty traffic.

See how it works: https://t.co/d7JdaY4CMM

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

AI is pushing networks to the limit. 🚀 Our own Tom Gillis joins theCUBE to discuss how Cisco Smart Switches are changing the game.

Watch the interview: https://t.co/lSw2ydqrhw

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

We are heading to ONUG AI Networking Summit Dallas! Join us May 13-14 to see how we are building the foundation for AI Networks with Cisco Nexus One and secure networking.

Stop by our sessions to learn more ⬇️
https://t.co/9WFWY6eIpg

#CiscoDataCenter #ONUG2026

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

Scale AI with a validated foundation. Cisco & DDN combine UCS compute, Nexus One networking, and DDN A3I storage to maximize GPU performance.

Get the speed, scale, and simplicity your AI cluster demands.

Learn more: https://t.co/iCvQSScK7p

#AI #AINetworking #NexusOne #DDN

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

Reist Telecom won the 2026 Cisco AI Infrastructure Innovator Award 👏 Now they're sharing how they did it. Join us May 21 to hear their modernization blueprint live.

Register now: https://t.co/tsrQlfynFM

#CiscoAI #DataCenter

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

🌐 AI workloads eating your network bandwidth? We put it on a diet. Nexus Dashboard 4.2 uses Slurm and NVIDIA integration to optimize traffic dynamically.

See how to tame your data center ➡️ https://t.co/HugdYuDZtT

[Cisco Security @CiscoSecure]

Taking a page from our friends in a galaxy far, far away: even the most fortified systems can fall to a single vulnerability.

Cisco Hypershield was built for this. AI-native security that closes gaps before attackers find them.

May the 4th be with you. https://t.co/mh3EDwIsB1

[Kentucky Derby @KentuckyDerby]

The moment Cherie DeVaux became the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby.

[Cisco @Cisco]

The future of #AI infrastructure is here: faster networks, smarter storage, stronger security. Learn about the changes that could shape AI's future from Cisco SVP Will Eatherton ➡️ https://t.co/U9i7WTLxNP

[Cisco Enterprise Networking @CiscoNetworking]

How do you keep 170,000 people connected at once? 🐎

The Kentucky Derby is a masterclass in handling extreme demand variability. Churchill Downs is currently deploying a massive Cisco-backed network refresh to ensure that every wager, every mobile ticket, and every HD stream works perfectly—even when the facility hits 3x its normal capacity.

Check out Network World's coverage of the refresh how Churchill Downs is leveraging AI and automation to stay ahead of the curve: https://t.co/W1bvcEvpfR

[Usha Andra @AtUandra]

Quantum-safe crypto is no longer optional. Quantum threats are coming for today’s encryption, and the clock is ticking. Post-quantum security preparedness needs to move now

#PQC #quantum #security

https://t.co/3qHSIlKZtF

[Usha Andra @AtUandra]

The future’s officially boarding now! Don’t be surprised if your seatmate is a perfectly polite #humanoid cruising at 30,000 ft. Just hope they don’t hog the armrest… or need a software update mid-flight. Are your networks ready for this?

#AI #Robotics

https://t.co/rPnquBDJPw

[CiscoLive @CiscoLive]

Explore the World of Solutions at #CiscoLive 2026! 🌐✨

Get ready to:
✅ Discover cutting-edge tech
✅ Network with the pros
✅ Learn from leading experts

The countdown to Las Vegas is on! 🎰🚀 Don’t miss out👉 https://t.co/ScP2MD0drN

[Usha Andra @AtUandra]

Register now to deliver AI outcomes today! #ai #infrastructure #ainetworking @sgudurvalmiki

[Cisco Data Center and Cloud @ciscoDC]

Are you ready to move beyond the hype? 📺 Join us for a fireside chat on how we’re delivering real-world AI networking outcomes. We’re talking GPU utilization and operations simplification; no forklift upgrade needed. 🛠️

Register now: https://t.co/f5kJGK2bdI