Bell, Cisco team up on Canadian sovereign AI infrastructure offer

PUBT · 2d ago
Bell, Cisco team up on Canadian sovereign AI infrastructure offer
  • BCE’s Bell Canada signed a memorandum of understanding with Cisco to develop a sovereign AI infrastructure offering for Canada.
  • Planned offer combines Bell’s Canadian data centers, networks, operations with Cisco AI, security, observability, monitoring, critical infrastructure management technologies.
  • Focus on enabling Canadian organizations to deploy, secure, manage AI infrastructure domestically, targeting government, regulated industries, other sensitive workloads.
  • Work includes modular AI infrastructure options using Cisco AI PODs, tied to Bell connectivity and operations services.
  • Parties are evaluating flexible commercial models to better align customer costs with AI infrastructure usage.


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