Cisco unveils subscription service for AI-based networking

Cisco today unveiled intent-based networking to deliver security and networking that learns, adapts, and gets smarter over time through the use of artificial intelligence. "The network has been foundational to business and society for the last 30 years, and today I really believe we're redefining the network for the next 30 years," Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said at an event held today in the Dogpatch neighborhood in San Francisco. "What we believe we can do for our customers is translate their business intent into the network. We can automate policy, we can understand what our customers are trying to do. Think about a manufacturing facility that connects all their assets, and then as they need more capacity then the network dynamically provisions based on what they're trying to achieve in their business."