BREAKING: Cisco is the critical infrastructure for AI - from Partner Summit and NVIDIA GTC to Cisco Live APJC

Cisco Live APJC carried forward the innovation momentum Cisco  has been driving across the AI era. . It started at Cisco Partner Summit with Unified Edge and continued at NVIDIA GTC with tighter alignment on AI infrastructure. Cisco Live APJC kept that momentum going and focused it on what APJC teams need to run AI in production.

The center of gravity was AI Ready Infrastructure, backed by the 2025 AI Readiness Index and the AI Readiness Hub. The research is blunt and useful.

What the research shows

• Pois a design decision. 96% of pacesetters have dedicated power infrastructure. In APJC it is 45%. Treat power as part of architecture, not facilities.
• Security is infrastructure. 84% of pacesetters run end to end encryption and monitoring by default. APJC is at 31%. If agents are coming, security must move up front.
• Ambition outpaces readiness. 84% of APJC organizations plan to deploy AI agents. Only 31% can secure them today. The gap is not about interest. It is about day one and day two discipline.

What this means for 2025 plans
• Start with power and network planning. If these are weak, your AI will stall at the edge.
• Make encryption, identity, and monitoring non negotiable. Add governance so risk leaders can say yes with confidence.
• Build an operating loop. Observe models in production, measure outcomes, and retrain on a cadence. Treat observability as a business lever, not a dashboard.

Signals on the ground
You can already see the pattern across APJC. Transforming large event spaces like Singapore Sports Hub shows what modern edge connectivity looks like when thousands of users converge. The same approach will matter for airports, universities, hospitals, and factories that want low latency experiences and safe operations.

Resources

My analysis
The sequence makes sense. Define the architecture. Align with GPU and data ecosystems. Prove the edge can carry the load. Then lock security and observability into the base. APJC teams can move fast if they solve power and network first, bring risk and governance into planning, and commit to a day two loop. That is how pilots become operating procedure.

Thank you everyone!!!!

Best,

Ravit Jain

Founder & Host of The Ravit Show