Podcast: What does an AI-ready network look like?

From Samuel Pasquier of Cisco Systems’ Industrial IoT Connectivity Portfolio, learn about the implications of increased digitization of OT, the emerging manufacturing use cases enabled by AI, and how to build a future-proof network infrastructure that supports next-generation industrial automation.
Sept. 4, 2025

In this episode, Pasquier discusses next-generation manufacturing use cases, implications around increased OT digitization, and the networking capabilities required to future-proof operations.

In this episode, he also chats about:

  • Machine vision
  • Autonomous vehicles and tele-remote operations
  • Software defined automation
  • AI robotics and cobots
  • Edge to cloud
  • IE switching portfolio
  • AVGs/AMRs on the plant floor
  • Recently launched: Wi-Fi + CURWB
  • Planet Farms (watch Cisco Live session)

About the Author

Scott Achelpohl

I've come to Smart Industry after stints in business-to-business journalism covering U.S. trucking and transportation for FleetOwner, a sister website and magazine of SI’s at Endeavor Business Media, and branches of the U.S. military for Navy League of the United States. I'm a graduate of the University of Kansas and the William Allen White School of Journalism with many years of media experience inside and outside B2B journalism. I'm a wordsmith by nature, and I edit Smart Industry and report and write all kinds of news and interactive media on the digital transformation of manufacturing.

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