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Kevin Wollenweber

Senior Vice President / General Manager

Cisco Data Center and Internet Infrastructure

Kevin Wollenweber is Cisco's Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data Center and Internet Infrastructure. In this role, he leads product strategy to enhance Cisco's infrastructure solutions for the data center, high-performance routing, and mobile networks. His leadership is pivotal in driving growth and developing cutting-edge solutions to meet the dynamic needs of businesses worldwide. Kevin began his career at Cisco as an intern in routing engineering. His tenure which spans almost thirty years, reflects his commitment and extensive expertise in technology and leadership. His customer-first approach has informed his collaborations with the world's largest webscalers, enterprises, and communication service providers as they transform their network infrastructures. Kevin and his team have developed some of the industry's most innovative products and solutions, empowering customers to tackle business challenges head-on. One example being the integration of Cisco Silicon One into platforms to address the hyperscaler market. This vision has enabled hyperscalers to build robust, efficient, and scalable networks for cloud and AI services. Kevin's dedication to enhancing the customer experience extends beyond product development. His strategic vision has influenced Cisco's organic and inorganic investments across silicon, software, systems, operations, and optics portfolios. Kevin has a bachelor's and master's in computer engineering from Santa Clara University and held a Routing and Switching CCIE.

Articles

June 10, 2025

DATA CENTER

Evolving AI-Ready Data Centers with Cisco Full-Stack Solutions and Pervasive Security 

4 min read

AI is transforming the enterprise—and Cisco is building the secure, scalable infrastructure to power it. From AI PODs to next-gen networking and optics, discover how Cisco is enabling the future of AI-ready data centers.

October 29, 2024

DATA CENTER

Power Your GenAI Ambitions with New Cisco AI-Ready Data Center Infrastructure

4 min read

With generative AI poised to significantly boost global economic output, Cisco is helping to simplify the challenges of preparing your infrastructure for AI implementation. Learn how the UCS C885A M8 Server for AI model training, the Nexus 9364E-SG2 Switch for scalable AI connectivity, AI PODs for streamlined AI inference deployment, and Nexus Hyperfabric can accelerate AI initiatives and drive innovation.

September 11, 2024

INDUSTRIES

Celebrating Innovation and Connection: Cisco in Paris with NBC Sports

2 min read

Cisco's innovative network solutions played a crucial role in NBCUniversal's extensive and successful coverage of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, showcasing the power of a decade-long partnership in revolutionizing sports broadcasting.

June 18, 2024

NETWORKING

Deeper Service-centric Visibility Drives New Revenue and Simplifies Operations

3 min read

The addition of service-centric assurance brings a deeper, more precise, and real-time view of network and service performance for service providers and enterprises that run complex critical networks. AI-native predictive analytics lets you detect potential issues and act before your customers or users are impacted. Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance brings these capabilities to multidomain, multilayer networks and helps you to deliver premium high-performance services against competitive SLAs, while moving you closer to zero-trouble networks.

June 4, 2024

DATA CENTER

AI Takes Center Stage in the Data Center

4 min read

At Cisco Live, we are introducing new and enhanced solutions and technologies enable organizations to operationalize, simplify, and scale data center infrastructures to meet the evolving demands of AI, including a full-stack, cloud-managed AI solution and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to reduce data center footprint and complexity.

March 19, 2024

DATA CENTER

Building Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Revolution 

6 min read

Cisco is helping data center networks evolve to support AI/ML applications using Ethernet. With an AI/ML networking blueprint and a new strategic partnership with NVIDIA, Cisco is providing data center Ethernet networking solutions for customers to enable AI/ML workloads.

June 21, 2023

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Accedian: Accelerating High Performance Service Assurance 

2 min read

Cisco announced its intent to acquire Accedian, an industry leading network performance monitoring partner that enables seamless operation of service provider transport and 5G networks. 

Cisco and DISH: Delivering the Promise of 5G to Create a More Inclusive Future

1 min read

By applying a software-first approach, Open RAN and virtualization technology, DISH Wireless disrupted the market with the country’s first and only cloud-native 5G Open RAN network.

Catching the Next Wave of Innovation in Routing and Automation

4 min read

This blog covers our perspective on the trends driving transformation, how we are addressing those with our customers, and how we are preparing for the even newer inflection points we see on the horizon.