Justin Van Schaik, WWT Technical Solutions Architect, and Marina Ferriera, Cisco Principal Solutions Engineer

InfiniBand was initially developed to overcome Ethernet's limitations; however, advancements in Ethernet technology have significantly reduced the performance and reliability gap, allowing Ethernet to match InfiniBand in terms of bandwidth, latency and reliability with certain optimizations. While Infiniband will continue to be leveraged in certain ultra-demanding deployments, most current generative and inference AI workloads can be supported by Ethernet.

Todd Hathaway, WWT Global Head of AI Security & Cyber Innovation, and Anand Raghavan, Cisco VP, Products AI

Cisco AI Defense is a pioneering solution designed to enable and safeguard AI transformation within enterprises, allowing them to develop, deploy and secure AI applications with confidence amidst rapidly evolving security threats. Cisco AI Defense employs a suite of security models and traffic interceptors embedded within enterprise cloud networking and secure access service edge (SASE) infrastructures to inspect and protect AI traffic, ensuring comprehensive security across AI applications and models.

Eric D'Lallo, WWT Data Center Compute Practice Lead, and Matt Dietz, Cisco Solutions Engineer

This demo is part of WWT's AI Proving Ground, running on Cisco AI POD/FlashStack and featuring automated deployment of NVIDIA NIM™ and an interactive UI chatbot engagement. It leverages NVIDIA NIM and Blueprints to quickly spin up RAG environments, enabling document and file uploads to address industry and company-specific queries.