Cisco Brings Enterprise AI Infrastructure to the Edge: CUBEd Award Winner
SiliconANGLE, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Cisco's Unified Edge converges compute, networking, and storage for enterprise AI at the edge.
Cisco unveiled Unified Edge, a converged hardware platform that won the 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Award for most innovative IoT or edge platform, addressing infrastructure challenges as AI workloads move beyond data centers.
The modular system combines compute, networking, and storage, supporting CPUs, GPUs, up to 120 terabytes of storage, and 25-gigabit networking, and integrates with Cisco's Intersight management suite for centralized monitoring across distributed sites.
Cisco's James Leach said the goal is to bring real enterprise-level computing for enterprise AI workloads to edge locations. Cisco also launched a Compatible AI Solutions program letting third-party vendors validate their tools on Unified Edge, expanding the edge AI ecosystem.