AI has transformed everyday experiences—from your phone instantly translating a foreign language to your smart assistant finding the fastest route home. Just as these devices connect you to the world in a split second, businesses now require on-demand, high-performance access to a rapidly expanding global AI ecosystem. This seamless, real-time connectivity is becoming the new standard for enterprise networks, especially as organizations strive to capitalize on next-generation AI.
The New AI Connectivity Challenge
AI is driving rapid transformation and innovation across every industry. Agentic AI is reshaping network workflows, bringing latency management and application performance back to the forefront. Inside AI data centers, ultra-high performance is essential to efficiently feed XPU clusters. At branch and edge locations, managing network interference and latency is critical for effective AI workload delivery. These demands have significantly increased bandwidth requirements due to heightened telemetry and real-time AI data flows—exposing the limitations of legacy WAN architectures
A new generation of AI data centers and Neocloud is emerging rapidly, creating unprecedented opportunities for organizations of all sizes—from startups to large enterprises—to harness GPU resources critical for AI innovation. To succeed, enterprises must secure instant, reliable access to these distributed AI resources through agile, high-performance networks that seamlessly connect hyperscale clouds, Neocloud, private clouds, and specialized AI platforms. Legacy network architectures often cannot keep pace with the bandwidth, agility, and security demands of AI-driven workloads. With the latest integration of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Megaport AI Exchange, that level of agility and reliability is now a reality for the enterprise network.
Introducing the Integration of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Megaport AI Exchange
The integration of Megaport’s Software-Defined Cloud Interconnect (SDCI) and the Megaport AI Exchange with Cisco SD-WAN delivers enterprises secure, automated, and ultra-high-performance connectivity to AI workloads hosted in data centers, emerging Neocloud, and leading cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This connectivity is managed seamlessly through a unified dashboard, simplifying control and enhancing agility.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN offers an on-demand, high-performance, and data center-agnostic network fabric that streamlines and accelerates access to AI data centers and Neocloud. Its Cloud OnRamp automation and multicloud optimization enable direct, secure connections to AI workloads hosted in Neocloud and major public clouds, including GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offerings for AI training and inference. The SD-WAN fabric ensures optimized routing, reduced latency, and consistent security policies, supporting dynamic scaling and workload distribution as AI demands evolve.
Together, this solution empowers rapid, cost-optimized, and secure access to next-generation AI infrastructure, ensuring innovation is never bottlenecked by the network. Unlike traditional architectures, it delivers cloud-scale agility, on-demand bandwidth, and real-time optimization purpose-built for AI workloads.
How Enterprises Win With AI-Ready Connectivity
Instant AI Workload Access
Slash deployment times from months to minutes with automated provisioning, enabling rapid, on-demand connectivity to AI data centers and cloud AI services.
Robust AI Security
Ensure AI workload integrity and data privacy with end-to-end encryption, on-box next-generation firewall (NGFW), and seamless cloud-delivered Secure Service Edge (SSE) protection tailored for AI environments.
Sovereign Network Control
Maintain AI data sovereignty and privacy by leveraging private, secure on-ramps to Neo Cloud and public cloud AI platforms, ensuring compliance and granular control over sensitive AI workloads.
Superior Performance
Deliver consistent, low-latency, SLA-backed connectivity optimized for AI workloads—significantly enhancing user experience and accelerating AI model training and inference compared to traditional internet.
Cost and Performance Optimization
Tailor network resources to the demanding requirements of AI workloads, balancing cost efficiency with high throughput and reliability to maximize AI infrastructure utilization.
Unified Network Management
Simplify AI workload connectivity through a single pane of glass, automating network provisioning and policy enforcement to reduce operational complexity and speed AI deployment.
End-to-End Visibility for AI Traffic
Gain comprehensive insights into AI application performance and network health, enabling proactive optimization and troubleshooting to maintain seamless AI user experiences.
A Game-Changer for Neo Cloud Providers
If you are a Neo Cloud or AI service provider, this expanded integration offers a compelling advantage to attract enterprise customers:
- Eliminate the need to build complex edge routing
- Deliver on-demand, secure, high-performance connectivity to your AI data centers
- Rapidly deploy scalable, SLA-backed network services that enhance your customers’ experience, reduce operational complexity, and unlock new revenue streams for hosting AI workloads
Ready to Accelerate Your AI Journey?
Seamless, secure, and high-performance connectivity is the foundation for breakthrough AI innovation. Discover how Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN integrated with the Megaport AI Exchange can transform your network fabric to meet today’s AI-driven workload demands.
Explore the resources below to start building your path to AI-driven success:
- Solution Page — Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp
- Webinar — What Is Software-Defined Cloud Interconnect (SDCI)?
- Solution Page — Accelerate data center transformation with Cisco AI PODs
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