Announcing powerful new enhancements to Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric
As the digital world races forward, the demand for seamless AI networking and modernized data center operations has never been higher. At Cisco Live EMEA 2026, we are thrilled to unveil groundbreaking new capabilities in Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric—our next-generation, cloud-managed network fabric solution that’s redefining how enterprises design, deploy, and operate their data centers.
AI Networking: The heartbeat of modern data centers
AI Networking reflects a new era in which AI-driven operations are no longer aspirational but essential. Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric stands together with other Cisco products at the forefront of this transformation; it is bringing together the best of cloud automation and hardware innovation to create a fabric that is as intelligent as it is intuitive.
Cisco Nexus One
Cisco Nexus One is an open, unified solution that brings together silicon, systems, optics, software, and a single operating model. Purpose-built for neoclouds, sovereign clouds, and enterprises, Nexus One delivers open choice at every layer—providing consistency from front-end, back-end, and storage networks.
Nexus One embeds network intelligence from silicon through software and operationalizes it through a unified operating model—on-premises, in the cloud, and API-driven first. Nexus One enables customers to stand up AI and non-AI fabrics faster, scale predictably, and operate securely and efficiently with assured performance. The result is lower time to value and lower cost of ownership as customers expand AI infrastructure without fragmenting operations.
The solution leverages Silicon One technology and advanced software capabilities to maximize GPU utilization, accelerate job completion times, and deliver secure, simplified operations at scale.
What is Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric?
As part of Cisco Nexus One, Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric is a revolutionary cloud-managed, as-a-service data center network fabric. It empowers IT generalists, application owners, and DevOps teams to easily design, deploy, and manage multiple fabrics across primary data centers, colocation sites, and edge locations. Managed through a secure Cisco cloud controller, Nexus Hyperfabric dramatically simplifies every stage of the IT operations lifecycle, ensuring repeatable, predictable outcomes—no matter where your infrastructure lives.
In addition, Nexus Hyperfabric is a powerful, cloud-managed controller solution for AI workloads. It offers the flexibility to support both build-your-own AI deployments and the simplicity of a full-stack AI infrastructure, seamlessly integrating networking, UCS servers, NVIDIA GPUs, optional VAST storage and AI software. Nexus Hyperfabric enables organizations to scale their AI infrastructure efficiently and reliably. Its cloud-managed approach streamlines operations and management, making it easy to deploy and maintain high-performance AI environments. With proven reference architectures, organizations can achieve incredibly fast time to first token.
Key benefits:
- Cloud-managed simplicity: Seamless, centralized management with the Cisco cloud controller.
- Any location, any scale: Design, deploy, and manage fabrics globally with ease.
- End-to-end lifecycle automation: From day-zero design to day-two operations, enjoy automated, guided workflows.
- Predictable outcomes: Built-in best practices ensure consistent deployment and operations for IT, DevOps, and application teams.
- Vertical stack innovation: Purpose-built hardware and software, integrated cloud management, and world-class Cisco support.
- Full-stack AI infrastructure: Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric offers a pre-integrated, cloud-managed, on-premises AI infrastructure that simplifies and accelerates AI deployments by integrating high-performance networking, compute, GPUs, and storage components into a unified stack, enabling rapid design, deployment, and scaling with zero-touch provisioning and continuous monitoring. It is compliant with the NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architecture (ERA), offering incredibly fast time to first token.
“Deploying Nexus Hyperfabric revealed how simple and effective modern data center management can be. Even during our limited trial, its streamlined lifecycle management—from initial setup to ongoing operations—stood out and significantly reduced complexity. This allows our team to dedicate more time to innovation instead of routine infrastructure tasks. Nexus Hyperfabric’s multi-site capabilities are set to simplify the connection of fabrics across various locations, boosting both agility and resilience. The introduction of Nexus 9000 Series Switches for Hyperfabric marks Cisco’s delivery of a unified, scalable platform designed to transform the future of data center networking.”
– Rajeev Khanolkar, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Gruve
For Nutrien’s second data center deployment of Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric:
“As a global leader in sustainable agriculture, Nutrien values operational efficiency. Deploying Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric gave us a unified, cloud-managed platform that streamlined our network operations. The system was quickly deployed on a Friday night and in production by Saturday morning. This rapid implementation and continued simplified management allow our teams to focus on innovation and service enhancement, rather than the complexities of network configuration.”
– Brock Richards, Global Network Architect, Nutrien
“Sharon AI has selected Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric to power our AI solutions because it delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end infrastructure that seamlessly integrates networking, GPU, and storage. This robust platform enables us to accelerate enterprise deployment with a fully Cisco-validated solution that aligns with NVIDIA NCP design and performance standards. By leveraging a unified, cloud-managed control point, we simplify operations, reduce management overhead, and ensure consistent, high-performance experiences—ultimately allowing us to innovate faster and deliver greater value to our customers.”
– James Manning, CEO, Sharon AI
On the Nexus Hyperfabric full-stack AI infrastructure solution: “It just works straight out of the box. We didn’t have to do any tweaking or make any changes, nothing whatsoever. It just worked…[as network engineers], we are living in Disneyland.”
– Mohammed A Jameel, Lead AI Network Architect, Cisco Systems IT
What’s new at Cisco Live 2026 Amsterdam?
We’re excited to announce major new features and capabilities that further elevate Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric’s impact.
Streamlined, cost-effective multisite
Cisco Nexus One provides a unified operating model across all network fabrics and across sites—spanning front end, back end, and storage. Cisco Nexus One unifies multisite orchestration across your entire infrastructure, now enhanced with Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric enabling distributed AI through unified lifecycle automation and validated fabric outcomes across multiple sites. Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric provides a streamlined, multisite data center interconnectivity, ensuring accessible and cost-effective deployment across multiple Nexus Hyperfabric sites. Leveraging VXLAN EVPN Multi-Site technology, Nexus Hyperfabric enables seamless, full-mesh peering between border gateways for reliable connectivity across multiple sites. This flexible architecture accommodates both intra- and inter-organizational fabric connections, allowing organizations to efficiently expand or interconnect their data center environments. Presently, the solution supports Layer 2 VNI extension, making it ideal for organizations seeking straightforward, scalable multisite networking.
Cisco N9000 Series Switches for Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric
Cisco N9000 Series Switches are the universal common platform spanning on-premises, cloud-managed, and API-driven operating models with support for NX-OS, ACI, and now Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric. Nexus Hyperfabric will extend support to N9000 systems. Organizations already invested in these N9000 Series Switches will be able to join the Nexus Hyperfabric revolution with familiar hardware—maximizing their infrastructure investments while benefiting from the cloud-managed operating model.
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI is now Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric
To clarify understanding with the product name, the Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI offering is now part of the Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric solution. It features the option for a full-stack AI infrastructure designed to simplify deployment and management for enterprise AI workloads.
This comprehensive solution includes the Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric cloud-managed network controller, Cisco UCS C885A M8 Rack Servers with NVIDIA GPUs, and NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking technology. Together, these components deliver a high-performance, scalable, and secure infrastructure for demanding AI applications and are NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architecture (ERA) compliant. The streamlined naming and structure make it easier for customers to identify and adopt the right solution for their enterprise AI needs. This option became available to order in early November 2025.
Get started today
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Join us at Cisco Live EMEA 2026 and step confidently into the new era of AI-powered infrastructure.
