Chuck Robbins

Chair and CEO, Cisco
Chair, Business Roundtable
Proud UNC Tarheel

[Cisco @Cisco]

The future of IT isn't more dashboards. It's intelligent systems that help teams move faster, reduce complexity, and stay in control. Learn how from Cisco President & CPO @jpatel41 via @NetworkWorld. https://t.co/Ewt6EQHRFH

[Chuck Robbins @ChuckRobbins]

Proud to be the Official Technology Partner of the @USGA, and best of luck to our Team Cisco golfers competing in this weekend's @usopengolf! ⛳

[Cisco @Cisco]

Cisco will continue to connect and protect the @USGA, their championships and operations for years to come. Learn more about our recent partnership extension: https://t.co/qmledyFLKN

[Chuck Robbins @ChuckRobbins]

At #CiscoLive, I shared that AI will triple network traffic within the next 3 years. But new @Cisco research shows a growing gap between network readiness and AI ambition — with many organizations reaching capacity limits within 2 years. Learn more about the accelerating impact of AI on campus and branch networks > https://t.co/mb5R6RfDlN

[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

[Chuck Robbins @ChuckRobbins]

AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and we have an opportunity to tip the scales in favor of defenders. @POTUS' new executive order strengthens national security while giving the private sector runway to innovate and sustain US AI leadership. We look forward to partnering with the Administration to scale AI-powered defenses and secure the critical infrastructure our nation relies on.

[Chuck Robbins @ChuckRobbins]

Every day, we hear about GPUs, models, devices, and applications…but all of those depend on one thing: the network. The network is more powerful than the node.

As you heard in our Cisco Live keynote, we’re building the critical infrastructure for the AI era. From Cisco Cloud Control to new Cisco IQ advancements, we’re delivering more AI innovation than ever before to help our customers build, secure, and scale for what’s next.

Read more: https://t.co/uourYRRURN

[Chuck Robbins @ChuckRobbins]

Thrilled to have 20,000+ customers, partners, and employees joining us at #CiscoLive this week to shape the critical infrastructure for the AI era!

We have a massive lineup of innovation to share this week – all aimed at helping our customers run at agentic speed and scale. If you’re not here in Vegas, join us online tomorrow: https://t.co/NTUd2gWw7v

[CiscoLive @CiscoLive]

Welcome, First Timers, to your first #CiscoLive 🥳 We’ve put together everything you need to know to hit the ground running. Second Timers and on, feel free to share your tips for our new friends!

[CiscoLive @CiscoLive]

And just like that - we’re live!⚡️The show floor is ready for you thanks to the hard work of all of our teams. Get ready for another incredible #CiscoLive !!

[Cisco @Cisco]

Competitive advantage comes from how fast organizations adapt and innovate.

Cisco CSO Ammar Maraqa shares perspectives on agile culture, customer focus, and long-term business value in this episode of TechBeat. Watch ➡️ https://t.co/VFzk4mAekx

[Cisco Security @CiscoSecure]

Did somebody say Jackpot? Cisco Live starts tomorrow. 🎰

We’re excited to welcome you with an exclusive look into how Cisco is shaping AI-driven security, expert industry insights, live demos, and special announcements you won’t want to miss. https://t.co/poENdKBVRZ

[Ronald Reagan Institute (RRI) @ReaganInstitute]

We're pleased to announce that Ambassador Kristen Silverberg, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Business Roundtable (@BizRoundtable), will speak at the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum.

Hear directly from key voices in American business on jobs, investment, and economic growth at #RNEF2026.

📅Friday, May 29 | Watch live at https://t.co/Nv7JgPZx1B

[Chuck Robbins @ChuckRobbins]

Great conversation with the team at @semafor on leading through change and how AI is reshaping infrastructure, security, and the way organizations operate and innovate. Thank you, @Edgecliffe and @PennyPritzker, for having me on The CEO Signal!

[Semafor @semafor]

In this episode of The CEO Signal, @Cisco Chair and CEO @ChuckRobbins is direct about what it takes to lead at the speed of AI.

He tells Penny Pritzker and @Edgecliffe why a bad decision can beat a delayed one, why teams need to “disagree and commit,” and when a CEO should step out of the room so their view does not distort the debate.

The conversation also explores Cisco’s role in the AI buildout, from networking and silicon to security in an AI-agent world.

For Robbins, keeping a large organization moving starts with the CEO setting the pace.

His advice: “Be the pace car.”

[Chuck Robbins @ChuckRobbins]

It was a privilege to welcome @EP_President and her delegation yesterday and discuss digital innovation, secure AI adoption, and the importance of public-private partnerships. Thank you for visiting Cisco and for the continued collaboration!

[Acacia @AcaciaComms]

What is scale-across networking and why are coherent optics so important for it? Read this blog to find out. #ScaleAcross #CoherentOptics https://t.co/XKMTWy0CPT

[Cisco Security @CiscoSecure]

Don't miss Cisco's live broadcast Thursday, May 28.

You've seen the tip of the Mythos iceberg. We've seen what lies beneath the surface.

Find out why we need a completely new operating model for resilient infrastructure in the era of AI-speed risk. https://t.co/iyxPvQhemm

[Chuck Robbins @ChuckRobbins]

This Memorial Day, we honor the courageous men and women who sacrificed their lives for the United States of America and our ongoing freedom.

Their selfless sacrifice and that of their families will never be forgotten. We honor them today…

[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 Security @CiscoSecure]

Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber demand a completely new operating model for resilient infrastructure - within months.

You've seen the tip of the Mythos iceberg. Discover what lies beneath.

Register now: https://t.co/59Ojlh4Ff8

#Mythos #Glasswing

[Business Roundtable @BizRoundtable]

BRT supports the bipartisan BUILD America 250 Act, which would strengthen the infrastructure systems that power the American economy and advance important reforms to the cumbersome federal permitting process.

Full statement: https://t.co/xJG6mnTOYR