Cisco  is the worldwide technology leader that has been making the Internet work since 1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow’s digital opportunity today.

Our strategy is aligned to the needs of our customers and the outcomes they want to achieve. As we continue to build a highly secure, intelligent platform for digital business, there are six core elements we are focused on: applications, data, security, cloud, infrastructure, and teams. 

We understand that the applications being delivered to organizations represent the technology layer closest to the business opportunity. This is why we are delivering solutions like Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), which simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates the deployment lifecycle of applications across data centers and multiple clouds. Another key offering, AppDynamics, provides visibility into applications to help customers make the right decision at the right time. This real-time action is critical in today’s world, where success is increasingly defined by speed and agility.

We also know that data is the most critical asset for our customers, and we are helping them not only gain valuable insights from it, but also secure it. In a multicloud world with more data, more users, and more services, the threat surface is expanding while hackers’ tactics continue to evolve. 

We must protect users, data, and workloads that are moving and expanding to the cloud. We are integrating our firewall and secure web gateway capabilities into Cisco Umbrella, our cloud native platform, to give customers a choice in how they deploy security controls––from the network to the endpoint to the cloud. We are developing the capability to orchestrate security policies consistently across all environments with Cisco Defense Orchestrator. We are also integrating these solutions—together with Duo, which controls user access to networks and applications, and Talos, our industry-leading threat intelligence—into an end-to-end security architecture for the multicloud world.

This brings us to infrastructure. We launched our intent-based networking platform to reinvent networking for today’s dynamic environment. Our new network is designed for agility using cloud and wireless capabilities, with the ability to garner insights from the data, and with security integrated throughout. This innovation required a new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for the entire Cisco Catalyst 9000 switching family and a new operating system designed to be open, programmable, resilient, secure, and capable of being run on-premises or hosted in the cloud. 

For the first time, we have a completely refreshed portfolio of campus switches, wireless access points, and enterprise routing products with software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) capabilities within our intent-based networking architecture. We have extended intentbased networking capabilities to the Internet of Things (IoT) edge to deliver unprecedented scale, flexibility, and security for increasingly connected environments.

The next step is to interconnect every domain of the expanded enterprise, from IoT to operational technology (OT), from the campus and the branch to the data center, and from security to cloud and service providers. This is what we are building: a multidomain architecture that helps securely connect any user on any device to any application on any network.

Technology is also at the heart of how teams interact. Our customers need effective and simple ways for their teams to work better together to increase collaboration and productivity. They also need new ways to engage with customers and partners to drive enhanced, personalized experiences. Intimacy, speed of response, and simplicity of interaction are critical. Our cognitive collaboration solutions use AI and machine learning to bring powerful capabilities to our customers’ collaboration experiences. With AI seamlessly integrated across the collaboration suite, our customers can automate tasks, gain contextual insights, and build better relationships.