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Jeetu Patel

President

Chief Product Officer

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer, leading global product vision and strategy. Under his leadership, Cisco has driven innovation across its broad portfolio of products, establishing the company as the critical infrastructure for the AI era. Patel joined Cisco in 2020 to lead the collaboration and security business. He quickly became recognized for his commitment to product design and user experience, leading the team through a period of rapid innovation to transform Webex and support customers through the global pandemic. In 2024 he was promoted to the role of Chief Product Officer, where he now leads several multibillion-dollar categories, including networking, computing, security, Splunk, silicon, optics, hardware systems, and more. A recognized expert in artificial intelligence and product strategy, Patel’s held senior leadership roles at Box, EMC, and Doculabs. Jeetu also serves on the board of JLL. He holds a B.S. in Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Articles

June 10, 2025

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Reinventing Infrastructure for the Next Wave of AI at Cisco Live

4 min read

AI is changing that fast and the opportunity is bigger than anything I have ever seen in my lifetime. We need to reevaluate many of the architectural assumptions we made in previous eras of computing, networking, and security.  That’s why we’ve brought a spirit of reinvention to everything we announced at Cisco Live.

June 4, 2025

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The Next Wave of AI is Here

4 min read

At Cisco, we’re building the critical infrastructure for the AI era. And the shift from generative to agentic AI is making our work even more important and timely. We’ll be sharing more at Cisco Live on how we're helping to put our customers at the forefront of AI innovation.

May 16, 2025

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The Future is Coming Faster than You Think

2 min read

At Cisco, we are building the core infrastructure of the AI era. As new solutions like Codex exemplify, the future of AI will be agentic. We envision a future where billions of AI agents are working together harmoniously on our behalf.

April 28, 2025

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Reimagining Security for the AI Era

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This week at RSA in San Francisco, we're launching an array of innovations aimed at helping enterprises equip their cybersecurity teams with the AI technology they need to keep their companies safe in the AI era. 

March 18, 2025

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Embracing the AI Era: Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA

3 min read

We are working with NVIDIA to deliver a strategic leap forward in AI infrastructure. Together, we plan to transform the way companies deploy, operate and secure AI Factories—data centers meticulously designed to power AI workloads. Our co-optimized architecture will enable organizations to tailor their infrastructure precisely to their AI needs, without compromising on operational simplicity or security. 

March 2, 2025

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AI is Reshaping Global Secure Connectivity

3 min read

The AI revolution isn’t just about bigger models and smarter applications.  It’s also about the network infrastructure that enables them. As AI evolves, service providers must rethink their architectures to deliver the future of global secure connectivity.  What was impossible just months ago will soon be the baseline expectation for customers going forward. The pace […]

February 25, 2025

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Cisco and NVIDIA Unite to Propel AI into the Enterprise

4 min read

Today Cisco and NVIDIA announced a mutual intent to expand a partnership that brings together two of the industry’s most innovative data center networking and compute leaders. Our collaboration will help enterprises accelerate AI projects and make it easier for more customers than ever to standardize on Cisco as they modernize their data center networks.

February 11, 2025

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Meeting the Moment: Innovation for Unprecedented Times 

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In 2024 and 2025, we built innovations that are both accelerating the pace of AI innovation AND helping our customers adopt and integrate AI into their business safely, securely, and cost-effectively. Read highlights of the announcements made this year's Cisco Live EMEA showing us pushing the envelope further.

January 15, 2025

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Protecting AI so AI Can Improve the World, Safely

4 min read

You need to move fast with AI, but you absolutely cannot afford to sacrifice safety and security for speed. Announcing Cisco AI Defense—a solution designed to eliminate this tradeoff and empower you to innovate fearlessly.