Cisco and NVIDIA Split AI Fabric Into Front End and Back End
Cisco and NVIDIA just formalized a two-fabric blueprint for AI racks, two unrelated papers landed the same day on letting AI agents touch network control planes, and SONiC keeps creeping toward the access layer. We also cover Meta's datacenter robots, a leap second heading for retirement, and an Oxford student who beat an energy company in court using AI.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Monday, August thirty-first. Okay, I need to start with a small claims court story today, because it is too good to bury at the end of the show — an Oxford PhD student just beat an energy company using nothing but AI and about the price of two coffees a week.
I promise we'll get the full story later, it's a genuinely great one. But we're opening with the real headline today. Cisco and NVIDIA just told the industry exactly how they want your next AI rack built, and it is not one network anymore.
It's two.
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