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Splunk isn't just a security tool anymore—it's foundational plumbing. Admitting his own "insightful lack of insight" as a non-power user, Robb Boyd unpacks his real-time realizations from Cisco Live 2026 on how Splunk is quietly becoming the core intelligence infrastructure of the enterprise.
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*Cisco made a silicon bet before AI existed. Now that bet is a structural moat. Here's why the networking problem at the heart of enterprise AI is exactly the problem Cisco spent years quietly solving — and what that means for practitioners making infrastructure decisions today.*
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Last week in Amsterdam, the producers asked me to talk about Cisco and AI on live television. I could have repeated the slogan. Instead, I skipped dinner to translate "Cisco is the critical infrastructure for the AI era" into something practitioners could actually use.
NFD39
Networking Field Day 39 challenged my assumptions about AI infrastructure. The real problems? Traffic imbalance, not capacity. ROCE's sensitivity to packet loss. Why validated designs matter more than specs. Here's what finally clicked for me about why AI networks fail—even with enough bandwidth.
BTA Series
Cisco's Silicon One follows a proven playbook: make Ethernet "good enough," win on operational simplicity. InfiniBand leads AI training, but if workloads fragment toward inference/edge, Cisco's positioned for the larger market. Amsterdam 2026 will show if the pattern holds.