Leadership appointments to take effect upon completion of previously announced transaction

IRVINE, Calif. and GREENSBORO, N.C., JULY 28, 2026 — Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: SWKS) and Qorvo, Inc. (Nasdaq: QRVO) today announced the expected executive leadership team for the combined company, effective upon the successful completion of the pending transaction.

“Our expected leadership team unites deep industry expertise, proven operating experience and a shared commitment to helping customers solve their most complex challenges,” said Phil Brace, president and chief executive officer of Skyworks, who will serve as chief executive officer of the combined company. “Identifying this team is an important step in preparing us to move with clarity and conviction after close. This group will play a critical role in bringing together the strengths of both organizations, supporting a smooth transition and positioning our combined company to realize the tremendous opportunities ahead.”

The following executives are expected to report to Mr. Brace as of the closing:

• Philip Carter – Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President
• Philip Chesley – Senior Vice President and President of High Performance Analog
• Kari Durham – Senior Vice President, Human Resources
• J.K. Givens – Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Secretary
• Yusuf Jamal – Senior Vice President and General Manager of RF and Mixed-Signal Intelligence Solutions
• Reza Kasnavi – Executive Vice President, Chief Operations and Technology Officer
• Joel King – Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Solutions Business
• Todd Lepinski – Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
• Frank Stewart – Senior Vice President and President of Advanced Cellular

Bob Bruggeworth, president and chief executive officer of Qorvo, who is expected to join the board of directors of the combined company post-close, added, “Today’s announcement reflects the strong partnership that has shaped our integration planning efforts from the very beginning. I am confident these leaders will help foster collaboration across our teams as we build on the engineering excellence, innovation, and customer focus that have long distinguished both organizations.”

About Skyworks
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is empowering the wireless networking revolution. We are a leading developer, manufacturer and provider of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and solutions for numerous applications, including aerospace, automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, defense, entertainment and gaming, industrial, medical, smartphone, tablet and wearables.
Skyworks is a global company with engineering, marketing, operations, sales and support facilities located throughout Asia, Europe and North America and is a member of the S&P 500® market index (Nasdaq: SWKS). For more information, please visit Skyworks’ website at: www.skyworksinc.com.

About Qorvo
Qorvo (Nasdaq: QRVO) supplies innovative semiconductor solutions that make a better world possible. We combine product and technology leadership, systems-level expertise and global manufacturing scale to quickly solve our customers’ most complex technical challenges. Qorvo serves diverse high-growth segments of large global markets, including automotive, consumer, defense & aerospace, industrial & enterprise, infrastructure and mobile. Visit www.qorvo.com to learn how our diverse and innovative team is helping connect, protect and power our planet.

Qorvo is a registered trademark of Qorvo, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Important Information About the Proposed Transaction and Where to Find It

In connection with the mergers, Skyworks has filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-291947) (the “Registration Statement”), which includes a prospectus with respect to the shares of Skyworks’ common stock to be issued in the mergers and a joint proxy statement for Skyworks’ and Qorvo’s respective stockholders (the “Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus”). The Registration Statement was declared effective on December 23, 2025, and Skyworks filed a final prospectus on December 23, 2025, and Qorvo filed a definitive proxy statement on December 23, 2025. The Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus was mailed to stockholders of Skyworks and Qorvo on or about December 23, 2025. Each of Skyworks and Qorvo may also file with or furnish to the SEC other relevant documents regarding the mergers. This communication is not a substitute for the Registration Statement, the Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus or any other document that Skyworks or Qorvo may mail to their respective stockholders in connection with the mergers.

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Fully certified Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) routers and consumer devices are expected to be officially finalized and certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2028. However, early pre-standard hardware (draft-compliant with basic capabilities) is already hitting the market. For instance, manufacturers like TP-Link have announced plans to launch the TP-Link Archer 8 router as soon as October 2026.

Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) marks a turning point. For the first time, a Wi-Fi generation optimizes for reliability rather than peak speed, targeting a 25% improvement in throughput under interference, a 25% reduction in 95th percentile latency, and a 25% reduction in packet loss as users move through the home. These are the right goals, and Plume welcomes them. Plume has been delivering these outcomes for over a decade across every device already in the home. When Wi-Fi 8 arrives, Plume will orchestrate its already outstanding capabilities on top of it. This is Plume and Wi-Fi 8 together, not one or the other.

Plume delivers the outcomes Wi-Fi 8 targets across the Wi-Fi generations people own today.
Wi-Fi 8’s alleged reliability gains come largely from coordination and intelligence: choosing the best channel, steering clients to the right band and access point (AP), prioritizing the right application, and avoiding interference. Since these decisions sit above the radio, Plume already makes them in the cloud for Wi-Fi 5, 6, 6E, and 7 devices now, and will continue to adhere to this strategy for Wi-Fi 8 silicon when it comes to market. Plume does not raise a device’s physical ceiling. A Wi-Fi 5 client maintains its peak rate. What Plume does is work every device as close to that ceiling as conditions allow, and keeps the whole-home experience consistent across a mixed fleet. This matters because the installed base lags the standard by years: as of November 2025 only 2% of connected devices are Wi-Fi 7 capable (WBA), the Wi-Fi Alliance expects just 15% of the 3.9 billion devices shipping in 2025 to support Wi-Fi 7, only 1.29% of devices in Plume trials support MLO, and the majority of devices Plume manages today still run Wi-Fi 5, a 2013 standard. Some Wi-Fi 8 mechanisms remain device-resident, such as HARQ and MLO, and Plume orchestrates those as the hardware lands.

On identical silicon, Plume delivers a measurably better experience.
In recent internal Wi-Fi 7 competitive testing against two leading mesh systems built on the same Qualcomm chipset, with six clients running at once, Plume scored 93.3% across the test suite versus 46.2% and 51.8%, roughly twice the nearest competitor. Plume kept roaming handoffs under the 300ms threshold that ensures they are invisible to users, whereas the two competing systems took around 8 and over 90 seconds, respectively. Plume moved a sticky client to a better access point in about 70 seconds, while one competitor never moved it and the other took 17 minutes to do so. Plume detected and avoided interference in roughly 10 minutes, whereas both competitors showed no response after 30 minutes. Finally, Plume delivered 194% more throughput to the worst-served client in the home. Same hardware, very different experience. The difference is orchestration, not the radio.

Side-by-side CPE testing results available upon request.

Rolling out Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 8 still requires Plume on top.

Wi-Fi 8 ships mechanisms, not the decisions that all but ensure a good experience. Choosing the channel, steering the client, prioritizing the application, and coordinating across access points all require an intelligence layer above the radio. That layer will be required even inside a fully Wi-Fi 8-installed home, and it has to work across the different vendors, chipsets, and platforms that a real home accumulates over time, which the new standard’s coordination features do not. Plume is, and has long been, that layer. Driven by cloud-scale telemetry rather than per-AP heuristics, and unified across hardware through OpenSync, RDK-B, and OpenWRT, the mixed installed base makes this urgent rather than eventual: homes will run Wi-Fi 5, 6, 6E, 7, and 8 side by side for years, with meaningful Wi-Fi 8 adoption not expected before 2028.

Newer standards raise the hardware burden. Plume softens it.
Each Wi-Fi generation requires more access points to cover the same home area because higher modulation schemes, such as 4096-QAM, and higher frequencies, such as 6 GHz, penetrate walls less effectively. More APs also mean more capital expenditure and more coordination complexity. Plume offsets this inevitability by shifting core capabilities to the cloud, improving performance through adaptive intelligence rather than another hardware refresh, and automating the onboarding, configuration, and troubleshooting that managing a denser mesh would otherwise require.

Augment your Wi-Fi–and your subscriber experience–with Plume.
Beyond the Wi-Fi standard, Plume’s deeper differentiator is data. It runs optimizations using telemetry from over 500 million devices across more than 50 million homes, 70,000 device types, and the top 3,000 applications, with 90% of devices identified within 1-2 minutes at the model level, all on a single data fabric and a single source of truth rather than a stack of siloed tools. That data feeds three platform pillars: Intelligence, Orchestration, and Engagement. It is why Plume is the trusted platform for over 450 ISPs worldwide. With security, parental controls, operational tooling, and monetization all on the same platform, it is the perfect enhancer to standard Wi-Fi optimization. Underpinning it all is Quality of Outcome (QoO), which estimates the likelihood that the application a subscriber is using will deliver the outcome they expect and drives real-time adaptations toward it, across every Wi-Fi generation in the home.

It shows up on the operator’s P&L.
Subscribers will not read a Wi-Fi spec, but they will notice when the video call drops, and call support when it does. Every support call carries a cost, every truck roll a larger one, and every churn event carries the highest cost of all. By getting ahead of the small failures that erode confidence over months, Plume turns fewer interference events into fewer dropped calls, fewer dropped calls into fewer tickets, and better in-home visibility into faster, cheaper resolution when a ticket does arrive.

In short: Wi-Fi 8 strengthens the foundation. Plume turns that foundation into a consistent, reliable, and intelligent whole-home experience; directly affecting ISPs’ P&L.

Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be) introduced Extremely High Throughput (EHT) mode, which focuses on maximizing raw data rates through wider channels, higher modulation, and multi-link operation. Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn), by contrast, introduces Ultra-High Reliability (UHR) mode. That shift captures the core difference between the two standards: while Wi-Fi 7 pushes theoretical throughput to its limits, Wi-Fi 8 is designed to ensure consistent, predictable performance in everyday environments where interference or congestion affects wireless quality. It is probably the first Wi-Fi generation whose main objective is not higher peak speed but reliability, targeting a 25% improvement in throughput under interference, a 25% reduction in 95-percentile latency, and a 25% reduction in packet loss when users move throughout the home and in areas where the signal is weak compared to Wi-Fi 7.

Plume embraces this shift because the challenge with Wi-Fi has never been maximum data rate (peak throughput); it’s what happens when conditions are imperfect, which is the reality in most homes. This is the problem Plume has been addressing since its inception. Long gone are the times when a single gateway is enough for every home. Wi-Fi 7 already requires a denser mesh system to cover the home due to extremely high modulation (up to 4096-QAM) and weaker penetration at higher frequencies like 6 GHz, which calls for more advanced coordination to manage effectively. That advanced coordination, together with multi-vendor hardware abstraction, AI-powered device and application intelligence, cloud-based optimization across every Wi-Fi generation, and the back-office tools that enable Care, NOC, onboarding, security, and day-to-day operational excellence, is what Plume delivers to service providers.

Wi-Fi 8 strengthens the foundation, but Plume uses it to deliver a consistently reliable end-user experience.

Wi-Fi 8 also brings a set of physical layer (PHY) and media access control (MAC) evolutions to bear:

• Dynamic Sub-channel Operation (DSO) and Non-Primary Channel Access (NPCA) to use spectrum more flexibly and work around parts of the channel affected by interference.
• Coordinated Multi-AP operation (Co-SR, Co-BF, coordinated scheduling) to make multiple APs behave as a coordinated group rather than isolated devices.
• Deterministic Multi-Link Operation (dMLO) and MLO-aware QoS, treating each link (2.4/5/6 GHz) as independently scheduled but jointly optimized.
• Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) to improve robustness under low Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) by reusing partial information from failed frames.

In contrast, Plume has built a cloud-based, adaptive Wi-Fi platform that seeks to achieve many of the same end goals as Wi-Fi 8, regardless of the Wi-Fi version running on the device. Even when Wi-Fi 8 launches, it will take years for the device ecosystem to catch up, and real homes will continue to contain a mix of Wi-Fi 5/6/7/8 clients for the foreseeable future. At Plume, we push the intelligence to the cloud so even older devices can benefit from many incremental Wi-Fi improvements. In fact, the majority of devices managed by Plume today are still Wi-Fi 5, a 2013 standard, and, thanks to Plume, they can perform at levels well above industry expectations.

Plume also ensures the same user experience across heterogeneous CPE of all types, multi-vendor, multi-platform, and multi-SOC, each with different radio and chipset capabilities. Thanks to OpenSync, RDK-B and OpenWRT integrations, and with global, cross-AP optimization driven by large-scale telemetry rather than per-AP heuristics. This ability to unify and optimize networks across different hardware vendors, chipsets, and platforms is something Wi-Fi 8 does not provide.

One of the main sources of dissatisfaction with Wi-Fi user experience is interference. Wi-Fi 7 introduced puncturing as a mechanism to reduce interference by shrinking channels, though this reduction came at the expense of a sharp drop in throughput. Wi-Fi 8 enhances that with Dynamic Subchannel Operation (DSO) and Non-Primary Channel Access (NPCA). Plume, in contrast, already performs fine-grained off-channel measurements and advanced channel planning for all devices and all Wi-Fi standards, ensuring that the wireless network is always on the best possible channel. It doesn’t require Wi-Fi 8’s Coordinated Spatial Reuse (Co-SR) to achieve multi-AP coordination; instead, it uses cloud visibility. As part of the recent internal Wi-Fi 7 competitive testing, we have confirmed that we remain the only tested company to respond to interference within minutes. Also, in another recent internal managed access points connectivity study conducted in the US and Europe, we have numbers showing 1 out of 5 homes in the US suffer from medium-to-high interference in 5GHz and 2 out of 3 suffer that same level of interference in the 2.4GHz band

When congestion hits the network, prioritizing between different applications is essential to ensure a good user experience. While Wi-Fi 8 defines deterministic QoS classes and deterministic access periods, Plume’s Full Stack Optimization and Application Prioritization provide application-aware scheduling and QoS enforcement across the entire home or property, using traffic classification and KPIs such as latency, jitter, and bitrate stability for each app. Sure, in a full Wi-Fi 8 network, with all devices Wi-Fi 8-capable, Plume will also leverage this capability, but Plume’s application intelligence, powered by AI models trained on massive telemetry datasets, delivers benefits across all devices, not just the new ones compliant with the latest standards. This was also tested in the Wi-Fi 7 competitive testing, showing that Plume was the only company in the test pool to be able to prioritize traffic when in bridge mode, the most common deployment scenario.

The thesis is simple: Plume delivers the reliability that Wi-Fi 8 is designed to achieve, plus the cloud intelligence to manage devices, applications, and multi-vendor hardware throughout the home. Unlike Wi-Fi 8, Plume works across a variety of Wi-Fi generations and devices, delivering these benefits years before the standard becomes widely adopted.

As mentioned earlier, Wi-Fi 8 certainly brings many improvements over Wi-Fi 7, with a focus on improved reliability, higher coding efficiency, and stronger performance in real-world conditions found in everyday homes.

Wi-Fi 8 is not just chasing higher “peak data rates”; it aims for ultra-high reliability (UHR), greater consistency, and lower latency, especially in dense, interference-heavy, or mission-critical environments. Additional techniques, such as Dynamic Sub-Channel Operation (DSO), Non-Primary Channel Access (NPCA), Coordinated Spatial Reuse (Co-SR), and Coordinated Beamforming (Co-BF), help Wi-Fi 8 use the spectrum more efficiently, reduce interference, and improve performance under less-than-ideal conditions. Multi-AP coordination becomes more important: several APs coordinate in time, frequency, and space so the network behaves as a cooperating system, rather than each access point working independently.

Let’s discuss some of these changes in more detail.

PHY layer evolution
Wi-Fi 8 maintains the up to 320 MHz channelization and 4K-QAM introduced by Wi-Fi 7, but refines how that bandwidth is used.

Dynamic Sub-channel Operation (DSO)
Wi-Fi 7’s preamble puncturing allows an AP to mark certain sub-channels as unusable using predefined puncturing masks. This mechanism allows the AP to exclude only the sub-channels affected by interference while continuing to use the remaining clean portions of the wide channel. This is effective but coarse-grained.

Wi-Fi 8 extends this idea with Dynamic Sub-channel Operation (DSO), in which the wide channel (e.g., 320 MHz) is subdivided into finer sub-bands, and for each transmission opportunity, the transmitter may select any combination of clean sub-bands, not limited to a static, standardized puncturing pattern. Multiple stations can simultaneously occupy disjointed sub-bands within the same wide channel, improving spectral efficiency in mixed-capability device populations. This per-packet dynamic “puncturing” is more efficient than the Wi-Fi 7 approach.

DSO directly targets situations where existing narrowband systems (such as radars, analog video, or legacy equipment) occupy portions of the spectrum, or where neighboring BSSs partially overlap within a wide channel.

Coordinated Spatial Reuse (Co-SR) and Coordinated Beamforming (Co-BF)
Multi-AP coordination is pulled deeper into the PHY, with the following features:

• Coordinated Beamforming (Co-BF): APs exchange CSI and jointly tune their beam directions to reduce inter-BSS interference while maintaining per-link SINR.
• Coordinated Spatial Reuse (Co-SR): APs share local interference measurements and dynamically adapt their transmit power and CCA thresholds, enabling more aggressive spatial reuse without breaking UHR guarantees.

The PHY is no longer optimized per AP, but is co-designed with multi-AP scheduling at the MAC layer.

MAC Enhancements
Wi-Fi 8 uses Deterministic Multi-Link Operation (dMLO) and Non-Primary Channel Access (NPCA) to achieve lower jitter, more predictable latency, and more robust multi-stream performance in congested bands.

It also uses Hybrid ARQ (HARQ), which is one of the largest technical leaps in 802.11bn.

With HARQ, the receiver retains partial information from failed frames, and upon retransmission it sends only parity additions rather than full frames, resulting in much better performance at low SINR. This feature brings substantial reliability gains, especially near the edges of coverage areas or in noisy environments, and is expected to significantly reduce worst-case latency.

Mobility and Roaming
Wi-Fi 8 introduces Fast Multi-AP Handoff (F-MAH), allowing clients to pre-associate with multiple APs in a coordinated group. This enables seamless handover at the MLD level without losing connectivity during sessions. It also adds proactive key caching, reducing handover times to below one millisecond, and coordinated beam steering based on predictions of the client’s movement direction and speed, allowing mobile devices to roam with no perceptible dropouts.

Deterministic Quality of Service
Wi-Fi 8 introduces several components to ensure predictable latency for real-time traffic classes.

These include:

Deterministic Access Periods (DAPs)
These are time slices assigned by AP(s) in which only specific traffic classes or STAs may transmit. Inside these windows, there is no random CSMA contention. It works similarly to TSN Time-Aware Shapers (IEEE 802.1Qbv) and represents a major shift, as the AP acts as a time-domain scheduler rather than just a contention arbiter.

QoS traffic classes
Wi-Fi 8 extends beyond Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) and maps traffic into 4 different classes:

• Deterministic latency
• Low-latency but non-deterministic
• High-throughput
• Background/best-effort

Traffic shaping and admission control
Wi-Fi 8 introduces a far more sophisticated approach to traffic shaping and admission control. Instead of relying solely on the traditional EDCA model, it adopts mechanisms that resemble the QoS bearer architecture found in LTE and 5G. Using the Enhanced Traffic Specification (eTSPEC), devices can describe their flow requirements in detail, allowing the network to make flow-based resource allocation decisions. APs admit deterministic flows only when performance guarantees can be met, and assign reserved scheduling slots to ensure predictability.

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) integration
Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) includes native integration with Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), aligning wireless behavior with wired TSN networks. To achieve this, the standard maps TSN time slots directly onto Wi-Fi 8’s Deterministic Access Periods (DAPs), ensuring that time-critical traffic retains its guarantees even when transitioning to the wireless medium. These mechanisms preserve essential TSN characteristics—bounded latency, limited jitter, and controlled frame delay variation- so that end-to-end performance remains predictable. Wi-Fi 8 further aligns wireless flows with wired TSN priorities through mapping to 802.1Qbv and 802.1Qci filters, enabling consistent traffic treatment regardless of whether the packet is moving across Ethernet or the radio interface.

Coordinated Multi-AP QoS Enforcement
Wi-Fi 8 extends QoS beyond a single access point by enabling Coordinated Scheduling (CS) across entire AP clusters. Through this mechanism, a group of access points share scheduling information and synchronize their medium access behavior. Instead of each AP independently attempting CSMA/CA access, CS allows APs to coordinate their transmissions, reduce interference between neighboring networks, and reserve airtime for specific traffic classes.

CS essentially turns multiple APs into a single coordinated scheduler, improving SINR, reducing collisions, ensuring QoS guarantees are met, and enabling more predictable roaming performance across multiple APs.

MLO-Aware QoS (QoS per Link)
Wi-Fi 7 introduced multi-link operation (MLO), but Wi-Fi 8 adds QoS awareness for each individual link, meaning the 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz links can each have their own traffic class and latency target.

With this MLO-aware QoS, a single flow can be deterministic on one link, best-effort on another, or split across links using priority-aware scheduling. This enables much more robust performance for XR, industrial, or other latency-sensitive applications.

HARQ + QoS
Previously, we discussed Hybrid ARQ (error recovery) and how significant this change is. This can be used with its QoS model so retransmissions no longer cause long delays. With this, latency-sensitive flows get HARQ “fast repair” priority, significantly lowering worst-case latency compared to Wi-Fi 7.

Wi-Fi 7 offers lower latency and improved performance over Wi-Fi 6, but it still mainly works under ideal conditions and in close proximity to the AP. At Plume, we know that ideal conditions rarely exist, and we work hard every day to improve worst-case scenarios, so every customer can have a good wireless experience at home. As tested in the Wi-Fi 7 competitive study, Plume gets the highest comparative throughput for the worst-positioned client. Wi-Fi 8 aims for much more deterministic latency (not just on average, but in the worst moments), seamless mobility (devices roaming between APs without losing connectivity), and stronger reliability at the edges of coverage.

Plume’s cloud-based control, AI-driven optimization, and open CPE integration were designed around many of the same UHR principles that now formalize Wi-Fi 8:

• Focus on worst-case experience, not peak benchmarks.
• Treat the network as a coordinated system of APs, not isolated boxes.
• Optimize end-to-end application performance and QoE, not just PHY metrics.

And we can do all of the above by applying advanced machine learning algorithms that consider past and present conditions, user behavior, device intelligence, and application information to maximize user experience.

The following chapters highlight concrete parallels.

Reliability
Earlier, we noted the PHY and MAC changes in Wi-Fi 8 to manage narrowband interference more effectively than with “just” preamble puncturing. At Plume, a cloud-based optimizer continuously analyzes on-channel metrics such as RSSI, SNR, retransmission rates, airtime usage, per-client MCS, and off-channel scans (overlapping BSSs, DFS radar events, and narrowband interferers). It considers both short- and long-term interference to choose the best channel for each AP.

This long-term interference and visibility give Plume the ability to proactively avoid interference when it is cyclical. When interference appears suddenly (“fast interference”), we react within seconds, seamlessly moving to the best available channel.

For Wi-Fi 7 networks, we also use preamble puncturing to avoid narrowband interference, and we proactively puncture channels when neighboring APs detect DFS-related interference.

Using a cloud optimizer (a powerful mathematical optimization solver) allows for more advanced use cases, such as interference reduction in Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs). In this scenario, the optimizer coordinates channel distribution across the MDUs to improve the performance of clients utilizing the network at any given time, similar to Coordinated Spatial Reuse in Wi-Fi 8.

Device Intelligence
No Wi-Fi standard can compensate for the wide variety of devices connected today. The Wi-Fi Alliance expects 3.9B Wi-Fi devices to ship in 2025 across all generations, of which only 15% will be Wi-Fi 7-capable, representing less than 2% of the total installed base. In our trials, only 1.29% of devices support MLO.

More importantly, many devices still do not support specific channels due to regulations, outdated drivers, or country-code issues. For example, even if Channel 100 in 5 GHz is completely clean, a Wi-Fi 6 Amazon Firestick may not connect to it.

Unlike approaches that rely on theoretical performance models, Plume combines intelligence from billions of daily network observations with device-aware AI to understand what each connected client is truly capable of—then optimizes channels and topology accordingly.

Beyond channel selection, Plume’s Adapt system improves steering with device-specific profiles, such as Windows-optimized steering. Compared to generic steering, the Windows profile improved upsteer success rates by ~25% and reduced troubled events and disconnects by ~50%.

Deterministic Wi-Fi
As discussed, Wi-Fi 8 introduces new QoS classes that map traffic into deterministic latency, low-latency, high-throughput, and background categories. Plume already operates a QoS and scheduling stack that is application-aware and centrally controlled. With Plume’s Application Prioritization, we automatically detect real-time traffic classes (a concept that Wi-Fi 8 incorporates) versus non-real-time classes, and, within the real-time class, Plume is aware of the impact of different KPIs for each. Gaming is highly sensitive to latency, video streaming depends on a consistent bitrate, and videoconferencing is sensitive to sudden bitrate drops.

We apply different profiles for each application and device type, with auto-optimization and the option for the user to choose what is most important. One family may prioritize video calls; another may prioritize low-latency gaming. This works for all device types, not just the newest models, and provides a deterministic experience at the application layer, even when the underlying MAC is Wi-Fi 5, 6, or 7.

We also mentioned that Wi-Fi 8 supports Coordinated Scheduling (CS) across APs, a mechanism that allows AP clusters to share their QoS schedules. As a result, high-priority flows receive protected spectrum across the entire AP cluster. In Plume-managed homes, this coordination already happens today, with QoS policies enforced across the full network regardless of how many APs are present.

Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) represents a meaningful evolution from Wi-Fi 7. Its shift from peak throughput to Ultra-High Reliability brings improvements such as coordinated multi-AP behavior, deterministic scheduling, reduced worst-case latency, and greater predictability for real-time applications. These enhancements address the same challenges highlighted in this paper’s introduction: real-world interference, device diversity, and the need for consistency rather than theoretical peak rates.

However, achieving the benefits of Wi-Fi 8 in the real world will take time. Its capabilities depend on new silicon, new access points, and new client hardware. The ecosystem refresh required to support these benefits is long, costly, and slow. Industry outlooks suggest that meaningful Wi-Fi 8 adoption will not begin until 2028, and even then, homes will still contain a mix of Wi-Fi 5, 6, 6E, 7, and 8 devices for many years. As with every past standard transition, the installed base will lag far behind the specification.

Plume removes this dependency on hardware refresh cycles.
The same principles that Wi-Fi 8 formalizes – worst-case optimization, coordinated AP behavior, deterministic QoE, device-aware intelligence – are already built into Plume’s cloud-based architecture and operating at scale across millions of homes today. Plume delivers many of the reliability, coordination, and QoS outcomes of Wi-Fi 8 targets, but does so across existing Wi-Fi generations, not just new devices.

In addition, Plume extends far beyond what any Wi-Fi standard can provide:

• Performance for every device generation: Plume improves Wi-Fi 5, 6, 6E, and 7 clients alongside emerging Wi-Fi 8 devices, something the standard itself cannot achieve.
• Reduced capital expenditures: Instead of requiring new hardware, Plume improves performance through adaptive cloud intelligence by shifting certain core capabilities to the cloud.
• Simplified onboarding and daily operation: Each standard requires more access points to achieve the desired level of quality. Managing these APs in a home is complex. Plume automates onboarding, configuration, optimization, and troubleshooting, reducing subscriber friction and support burden.
• Consistency across vendors and chipsets: Plume delivers a unified experience through OpenSync, RDK-B, and OpenWRT, capabilities the Wi-Fi standard does not address.
• Continuous learning through cloud-scale telemetry: Plume adapts in real time to interference, device mix, home layout, and usage behavior, exceeding the limits of on-device logic.
• Rapid enablement of new Wi-Fi features: As Wi-Fi 8 capabilities reach commercial silicon, Plume can enable them immediately, without waiting for a full ecosystem turnover.
• Value beyond Wi-Fi: Cybersecurity, parental controls, content filtering, motion sensing, and digital-life services all sit outside the scope of Wi-Fi 8 but are part of Plume’s platform.
• Deep operational and monetization tools for ISPs: Plume provides diagnostics, insights, service differentiation, and revenue expansion opportunities, none of which are defined in the standard.

For service providers, Plume is the practical and immediate path to what Wi-Fi 8 promises. Plume delivers Wi-Fi 8-level reliability today, improves the performance of every device already in the home, and layers cloud intelligence, security, operational visibility, and new services on top of the evolving radio standard.

Wi-Fi 8 strengthens the foundation. Plume turns that foundation into a consistent, reliable, and intelligent whole-home experience, now, not years from now.

Picture a hospital during a busy shift. A physician opens a patient’s X-ray to plan what is next, but the image is slow to load and then stalls. The IT team wants to fix it right away, but they cannot easily tell whether the issue is the local Wi-Fi or the internet connection. When several providers each manage a different piece of the network, simply finding the source can take time. In medicine, that kind of lag is more than an inconvenience. It can delay a diagnosis and the care that follows.

That scenario plays out because most distributed networks are not one network at all. They are built from separate systems and tools spread across every site. When something goes wrong, there is no single place to see the whole picture.

That is why Lumen chose Cisco. Our experience as the leading provider of cloud-managed networking solutions, including Cisco routers with built-in firewall, is the foundation for a fully managed network experience. Cisco provides the secure, scalable platform that brings WAN, LAN and security together. Lumen runs it day to day with 24/7 operational expertise. Organizations get fast, secure and reliable connectivity from a single partner accountable for all of it.

The real problem is fragmentation

When the WAN and the LAN are managed separately, small IT teams juggle different tools and vendors, which makes problems harder to see and slower to solve.

That changes when you manage the WAN and LAN as one network. The WAN links your sites together. The LAN runs inside each site. Manage both from one place, and the network is much easier to run. New sites provision themselves, so they come online fast. The same security policies protect every location. And because the design is modular, you can scale quickly to handle heavy AI and cloud workloads without building the network by hand.

The answer is not another tool. It is a Cisco-powered platform for the branch, delivered through Lumen’s managed service experience, built on three principles: simple, secure and responsive.

Simple, secure and responsive

Simple: run the business, not the network. Cisco gives you one place to see and control everything. Lumen runs it day to day.

• Always-on, highly available dashboard
• Centrally management user interface, no command line
• Single-touch provisioning and updates

Secure: Cisco’s protection covers every site, with Lumen watching around the clock.

• 24/7 monitoring and alerting
• Built-in firewall, content filtering and IDS/IPS
• SD-WAN and Site-to-Site Auto VPN

Responsive: a Cisco-powered network that adapts to demand.

• Flexible WAN designs, with multiple ports
• Automated updates and real-time visibility
• Smart routing that picks the best path

One platform, one partner, from the wire to the workspace

Underneath the three principles is a single, integrated stack. Cisco 8000 Series Secure Routers deliver secure, reliable connectivity with SD-WAN and firewall built in and expand the network with zero-touch provisioning. With everything managed through the Cisco dashboard, organizations get a unified operating model that Lumen can manage consistently across locations.

It is a standardized, full-stack solution built on Cisco hardware and managed from the cloud. WAN, LAN and security are all covered under a single Cisco platform, while Lumen designs, deploys and manages the devices and licenses. That makes the offer far more scalable, because Lumen certifies standardized devices to match each location’s use case and requirements.

From overhead to advantage

With Cisco’s Secure Networking solutions delivered as a managed service by Lumen, organizations can simplify the full network lifecycle and free IT teams to focus on strategic goals instead of firefighting. Managed centrally through Cisco, the network stops being overhead and becomes a foundation for faster execution. Together, Cisco and Lumen help organizations gain a more secure, scalable and responsive foundation for an evolving digital landscape.

The next time an X-ray is slow to load during a busy shift, you should not have to wonder which vendor to call. A Cisco-powered platform shows what is happening, and Lumen’s managed service team can resolve issues quickly.

This partnership helps organizations scale secure connectivity and applications across locations. Explore how Cisco and Lumen can simplify your network operations.

Now included with AllyCare Pro, Ally Intelligence guides any network engineer with step-by-step guidance for resolving network issues, reducing time to fix from hours to minutes for many common issues.

• Available as a free update for customers with an active AllyCare Pro support subscription.
• Transforms diagnostic test results into step-by-step guidance to help even junior IT professionals quickly resolve network issues in the field.
• Expert advice built on three decades of NetAlly troubleshooting expertise and millions of network tests — directly on the handheld tester.
• Rogue device and open port detection now available across the NetAlly portfolio at no additional cost.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 28, 2026 – NetAlly, a leader in handheld network testing solutions, today announced Ally Intelligence, a new service that embeds expert troubleshooting guidance directly into its handheld network testers, enabling frontline engineers of any experience level to diagnose and resolve network problems faster without escalation.

“Uptime just got a whole lot easier,” said Jeff O’Mara, CEO of NetAlly. “Ally Intelligence helps organizations scale network engineering expertise to every field tech with expert step-by-step instructions to fix complex issues right at the port without escalation.”

An Expert in Every Hand

Ally Intelligence empowers field engineers to resolve complex network issues on the spot, eliminating costly escalations to senior engineers or centralized operations teams that slow time for resolution. Built on 30 years of real-world networking expertise, it transforms NetAlly’s diagnostic results into guided troubleshooting workflows, with contextual guidance and recommended next steps, to help even junior IT professionals move from problem identification to verified results, all from the handheld tester.

With a single EZ Test, a technician reaches one of two fast outcomes. If the network is proven healthy, NetAlly documents the result so the team can rule it out and move on. If there is an issue, Ally Intelligence delivers step-by-step instructions to fix it in the field, without an escalation or a return trip to the site.

Ally Intelligence is an expert system built on the millions of network tests NetAlly devices have done over three decades. It’s the fastest way to fix a network problem, and there are no tokens to track or AI slop to contend with.

Scaling Expertise Across the Team

One of the biggest challenges facing network operations teams is extending the knowledge of experienced engineers across a distributed workforce. Ally Intelligence helps make proven troubleshooting guidance available directly on NetAlly testers, giving technicians access to contextual recommendations that improve consistency and confidence in the field.

For managed service providers, systems integrators, and distributed enterprise teams, Ally Intelligence helps reduce unnecessary escalations while streamlining troubleshooting, enabling senior engineers to focus on the most complex network issues.

Enhanced Security Capabilities Across the Portfolio

In addition to including Ally Intelligence free with the AllyCare Pro subscription, the company is also expanding advanced network discovery capabilities across its product portfolio. Nmap and Discovery Monitoring, previously available only on CyberScope^®, are now supported on EtherScope^® nXG, AirCheck^® G3, and the LinkRunner^® AT 4000 for customers with active AllyCare subscriptions.

“Our goal is to help technicians solve problems faster with the tools they already carry every day,” said O’Mara. “By bringing Nmap and Discovery Monitoring to more of our testers, we’re giving network teams greater visibility into connected devices and network changes without requiring additional tools or workflows.

Available Now with AllyCare Pro

Organizations with an active AllyCare Pro subscription can begin using Ally Intelligence today on AirCheck G3, CyberScope, EtherScope nXG, and most LinkRunner products. Customers renewing AllyCare also gain access to Ally Intelligence, Link-Live collaboration, ongoing software updates, and the latest platform enhancements.

About NetAlly

For decades, the NetAlly® family of network test and analysis solutions has helped network and cybersecurity professionals deploy, manage, maintain and secure complex wired and wireless networks. Since introducing the industry’s first handheld network analyzer in 1993, NetAlly has continued to advance portable network testing and cybersecurity assessment through solutions including EtherScope nXG, AirMagnet, LinkRunner, LinkSprinter, and AirCheck.

NetAlly solutions simplify network testing, accelerate problem resolution and improve collaboration between field personnel and remote experts.

After decades chasing speed as the primary performance benchmark, wireless technology providers have entered a new era defined by broader connectivity, network efficiency and support for new devices classes. At LitePoint, we see the transition manifesting through two technologies introduced in 3GPP Release 17: non-terrestrial networks (NTN) and 5G reduced capability, also known as RedCap or NR-Light. Together, these advances represent a noteworthy shift in how wireless infrastructure and devices are designed and validated.

As a result, the conversation around wireless innovation has evolved significantly. I shared these observations during the Test and Measurement Forum hosted by RCR Wireless News in a session titled: “Device Performance for the Next Era of Networks: NTN, RedCap and Advanced RF Validation Considerations.”

Earlier generations of cellular technology focused largely on throughput and user data rates. The transition to 5G expanded the mission by introducing three differentiated service categories: enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) and massive machine-type communications (mMTC). With the advent of 5G Advanced, the next wave of cellular technology is moving us even closer to universal and highly efficient device communications as we approach the commercial launch of 6G in the 2030 timeframe.

What Is Bumping Us Off the Speed Wagon?

We believe at least three macro trends are catalyzing momentum. Chief among them is the immense impact of IoT and the support required to deploy and manage tens of billions of connected devices. At the same time, the industry is eager to close a stubborn global coverage gap where mobile broadband access is either unavailable or economically impractical using conventional terrestrial infrastructure. These forces are triggering a third event by inspiring a new generation of connected devices for industrial automation, autonomous systems, AR and VR applications, maritime connectivity and remote asset monitoring. This next wave of IoT-enabled technology is already placing new demands on wireless networks that require more flexible and resilient connectivity models.

This is where NTN and RedCap begin to play a transformative role.

NTN transcends terrestrial cellular by tapping satellite networks. Depending on the deployment architecture, NTN can leverage low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO) or geostationary (GEO) satellites to provide coverage to areas that are otherwise inaccessible. This creates new opportunities for global asset tracking, maritime logistics, remote industrial operations and emergency communications.

RedCap serves a very different segment of the market. Rather than pursuing maximum throughput, RedCap lowers complexity and power for IoT hardware that requires reliable, continuous communication without the cost and energy budgets of 5G broadband. Devices such as wearables, industrial sensors, smart meters and connected consumer electronics fall into this category.

Market projections underscore the significance of both technologies. Forecasts indicate RedCap device shipments could exceed one billion units by the early 2030s. NTN adoption is accelerating as mobile operators and satellite service providers expand partnerships for global connectivity services. These trends suggest that NTN and RedCap will become foundational elements of the wireless ecosystem.

With Convenience Comes Complexity

As exciting as these opportunities may be, they are also complex. NTN changes the RF design equation at the device level. Satellite communication operates across new frequency bands including L-band, S-band and even higher frequency Ku and Kaband spectrum. That demands RF front-end architectures with specialized filters, new power amplifier characteristics and more sophisticated antennas.

Doppler compensation becomes especially important for NTN implementations in low Earth orbit. Since LEO satellites move rapidly relative to the devices they serve, modems must continuously compensate for frequency shifts in the transmit path. Even small inaccuracies can cause uplink transmissions to miss the intended satellite frequency allocation. Timing synchronization also becomes more challenging because of commensurately larger propagation delays.

Signal path loss is another major consideration. Unlike terrestrial cellular, NTN devices must maintain reliable communication over extremely long distances between the Earth and orbiting satellites. This places greater emphasis on antenna efficiency, link budget management and front-end sensitivity optimization.

RedCap brings a separate set of challenges. Compared to traditional enhanced mobile broadband, RedCap implementations simplify bandwidth requirements, reduce antenna counts and optimize power consumption. These slimmer architectures are particularly attractive for IoT applications where battery life, device size and cost efficiency are often more important than peak throughput performance. However, RedCap devices still require rigorous RF validation to ensure stable operation under real-world conditions.

Validation Takes a Front Seat in Evolving Test Regimens 

As these technologies mature, validation strategies become increasingly important. At LitePoint, we see testing requirements evolving well beyond traditional conformance validation. Conductive RF testing is already essential for validating parameters such as output power, error vector magnitude, adjacent channel leakage ratio, harmonics and spurious emissions. NTN adds new layers of complexity that require more advanced validation methodologies.

Frequency error validation in NTN devices, for example, now involves evaluating dynamic Doppler compensation rather than simply verifying static carrier accuracy. Timing advance synchronization and link budget margin verification become critical components of overall system validation. On the receiver side, sensitivity measurements must account for reduced antenna diversity and changing propagation characteristics.

Validation Helps Reconcile the Lab to Fab Variance

Engineers today face a significant challenge when maintaining device performance between initial silicon validation and commercial deployment. Early-stage silicon often arrives with incomplete firmware, partially implemented AT command sets and immature calibration routines. NTN modem features such as Doppler pre-compensation are frequently among the last subsystems to stabilize because they depend on the successful integration of multiple hardware and software components.

This reality requires a far more aggressive and automated testing approach. Validation teams must carefully track firmware revisions, build retry logic into automated test sequences and derive early test limits directly from specifications rather than relying on mature golden reference devices that may not yet exist.

Commercial device validation introduces additional pressures tied to regulatory certification, carrier acceptance requirements and manufacturing throughput constraints. Moving from controlled conductive measurements into over-the-air testing environments adds correlation complexities that become especially pronounced for satellite-based communication systems.

New Performance Vectors Are Expanding the Test Envelope

As the industry adopts more densely integrated multi-mode devices that combine NTN, RedCap and future 6G capabilities, holistic validation strategies will become essential. Engineers can no longer treat individual wireless technologies as isolated subsystems. Instead, testing must evaluate how these technologies coexist within increasingly compact and highly integrated device architectures.

At LitePoint, we believe successful validation in this next era of wireless connectivity will depend on intelligent automation, scalable RF test architectures and system-level visibility throughout the design lifecycle. NTN and RedCap represent a broader transformation for an industry that has historically measured itself against speed and data throughput. The next decade will be defined by reach, reliability and the ability to connect people in ways that defy the practical limits of conventional wireless communication.

Austin, Texas – July 20, 2026 – Wi-Fi Alliance® applauds Ofcom’s landmark decision to implement an innovative spectrum sharing framework for the Upper 6 GHz band, making the United Kingdom the first country in Europe to establish a regulatory framework enabling Wi-Fi® access across the entire 6 GHz band (5925–7125 MHz).

The framework enables license-exempt Wi-Fi access across the full 1200 MHz of the 6 GHz band through a balanced spectrum sharing approach that combines immediate access for Wi-Fi with a clear path for future mobile services. The decision also authorizes higher-power outdoor Wi-Fi operation under the control of Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) systems, unlocking new opportunities for innovation while protecting incumbent spectrum users.

“Ofcom’s decision is a landmark achievement for wireless innovation in Europe,” said Kevin Robinson, President and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance. “By adopting a forward-looking spectrum sharing framework, the United Kingdom is maximizing the value of the 6 GHz band and ensuring consumers, businesses, and public services can benefit from the advanced connectivity enabled by next-generation Wi-Fi. This decision demonstrates that regulators can support both today’s growing demand for Wi-Fi and tomorrow’s mobile services through innovative spectrum management.”

Demand for high-performance Wi-Fi continues to accelerate as artificial intelligence, immersive applications, industrial automation, cloud computing, and next-generation enterprise networks require greater capacity, lower latency, and wider channels. Access to the full 6 GHz band will enable the advanced Wi-Fi technologies needed to support these increasingly demanding applications and deliver faster, more reliable connectivity across homes, businesses, schools, healthcare facilities, and public venues.

Wi-Fi Alliance remains committed to working with regulators, policymakers, and industry stakeholders to support successful implementation of AFC systems and advance spectrum policies that enable Wi-Fi innovation and maximize the benefits of unlicensed connectivity worldwide.

About Wi-Fi Alliance® | www.wi-fi.org
Wi-Fi Alliance® is the worldwide network of companies that brings you Wi-Fi®. Members of our collaboration forum come together from across the Wi-Fi ecosystem with the shared vision to connect everyone and everything, everywhere, while providing the best possible user experience. Since 2000, Wi-Fi Alliance has completed more than 85,000 Wi-Fi certifications. The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ seal of approval designates products with proven interoperability, backward compatibility, and the highest industry-standard security protections in place. Today, Wi-Fi carries more than half of the Internet’s traffic in an ever-expanding variety of applications. Wi-Fi Alliance continues to drive the adoption and evolution of Wi-Fi, which billions of people rely on every day.

A fundamental shift is underway in IT operations. At Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel highlighted this change firsthand. As infrastructure scales from the core data center to the edge, the primary challenge IT teams face is no longer a shortage of tools, but rather the need for a platform that provides unified operational context. Managing distributed environments through separate consoles, different permission models, and disconnected alert systems has become a drag on operational efficiency. This problem is especially challenging during slowdowns or outages that span data center infrastructure. Teams lose critical time navigating disconnected systems, leading to potentially significant business impacts like lost revenue, supply chain delays, disgruntled customers, and compliance violations.

Introducing Cisco Cloud Control

To bridge existing management console silos and provide a cohesive management experience, Jeetu introduced Cisco Cloud Control at Cisco Live. This unified platform manages your entire Cisco estate, including Nexus One and Cisco Intersight, bringing each platform’s powerful capabilities into one place to unlock the context needed for the complexity of cross-domain, agentic operations. Launched with controlled availability for U.S. commercial customers and general availability later this year, Cisco Cloud Control represents a critical operational innovation: instead of managing multiple individual tools, you can now manage data center domains through a unified platform that enhances efficiency and delivers a comprehensive data center view for IT teams.

Why unified operations is a game changer in modern data centers

Modern data centers rely on a multiplicity of platforms and tools, each optimized for specific domains such as networking, compute, security, and observability. However, having so many separate tools creates a problem: when something goes wrong, IT teams have to manually piece together information from all those different sources to figure out what changed, what’s impacted, and what actions to take. A unified operations platform eliminates that problem.

The importance of unification is even more crucial today because of AI-driven workloads, where infrastructure is highly complex and autonomous operations can scale up or down rapidly. AI infrastructure—high-density GPU clusters and specialized AI networking fabrics—must be managed through a single, unified view to prevent blind spots and avoid fragmented insights. When networking, security, and compute data are in separate silos, troubleshooting a performance drop in an AI pipeline becomes a needle-in-a-haystack search. Every minute spent moving between tools is a minute where expensive AI resources sit idle or underutilized.

How Cisco Cloud Control unifies operations

Cisco Cloud Control is a comprehensive data center platform that unifies key operational capabilities. The workspace integrates data and workflows from multiple Cisco products, such as Cisco Intersight, Nexus One, Meraki, ThousandEyes, and Security Cloud Control.

With a single login, operators can gain access to their entire Cisco portfolio, creating a consistent and efficient entry point for operations. This unified platform delivers a normalized inventory and real-time topology that visually maps assets and their relationships. By correlating alerts from multiple domains into a consolidated view, teams can identify root causes faster. By preserving the depth and autonomy of individual domain tools while eliminating the need for manual data reconciliation, Cisco Cloud Control empowers teams to move quickly from signal to action, powered by AgenticOps and collaborative workspaces.

Scaling operations with AgenticOps

This unified foundation also powers Cisco AI Canvas, the industry’s first multi-user workspace for cross-domain AgenticOps. While Cisco Cloud Control provides the shared context, AI Canvas uses AI agents to investigate, reason, plan, and execute across the entire infrastructure stack, providing operators with clear plans and guided actions. This integrated functionality allows teams to move from reactive troubleshooting to proactive, agent-assisted resolution, while keeping the human operator firmly in control of every decision.

When an application performance issue arises, the workflow shifts from manual investigation to intelligent orchestration, including:

• Alerting: Alert surfaces with correlated cross-product issues
• Investigation: Agent moves alert into AI Canvas for investigation
• Correlation: Domain-specific agents correlate telemetry to solve problems
• Remediation: AI Canvas proposes remediation for human approval

Accelerating resolution in a collaborative workspace

Cisco Cloud Control fundamentally transforms troubleshooting from a series of reactive, isolated tasks to a collaborative, consistent experience. By simply sharing a link, you can instantly bring cross-domain experts into a unified investigation board for real-time collaboration. Because context is maintained throughout the investigation, the need for bridge calls, manual data copy and paste, and the loss of information during shift changes are all eliminated, significantly reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR).

Elevating efficiency for data center operations

Cisco Cloud Control extends the value of your existing operating environment by delivering a unified platform that drives improved efficiency and business continuity across both networking and compute domains.

Key benefits:

• Accelerated root cause analysis through unified cross-domain insights
• Proactive issue detection and resolution to maintain AI workload performance
• Streamlined collaboration with a shared, persistent investigation workspace
• Reduced operational complexity by correlating alerts and providing guided remediation
• Enhanced visibility, correlating network, compute, and security domains
• Consistent, real-time topology and inventory updates across sites and fabrics

Operational continuity, enhanced intelligence

Cisco Cloud Control is designed to act as a force multiplier for your existing environment. The familiar operational models for Nexus One and Intersight remain unchanged. You don’t need to relearn your existing workflows. All current inventory, health monitoring, and policy management capabilities are still accessible. Furthermore, the depth and autonomy of your domain-specific tools are maintained, ensuring that your team can continue to rely on the operational tools you trust.

Cisco Cloud Control introduces a shared, persistent investigation workspace that enables real-time collaboration across teams. Alerts can now be correlated across products, providing guided remediation steps that simplify complex troubleshooting. Deep reasoning gives data center operators a structured investigation experience—competing hypotheses, supporting evidence, impact assessment, and a recommended resolution—for the cross-domain problems that simple playbooks cannot solve. Additionally, you gain integrated observability data, which offers the comprehensive, cross-domain context needed to understand how network events impact compute and security. Beyond this, an open connectivity layer links data exchange among external tools (such as ServiceNow) to pull in ticket context, allowing AI Canvas to expedite the troubleshooting of complex compute and network issues.

By showing observability data directly within the unified dashboard, Cisco Cloud Control also empowers operators to correlate infrastructure health with cross-domain telemetry, ensuring your infrastructure remains resilient and fully optimized for mission-critical workloads. This integration eliminates the “swivel chair” effect, the inefficiency and frustration that occurs when employees must manually switch between multiple, disconnected software systems to complete a single task. Instead, operators gain greater operational control and a clearer path from signal to action across Cisco compute, networking, security, and AI-powered operations.

How to access Cisco Cloud Control

Customers in the U.S. can now request access on cloud.cisco.com. To help you get started quickly, no additional licensing costs are required. Access requires two or more connected Cisco products and U.S.-hosted deployment. Regional availability outside the U.S. is planned for later in the year.

Stop wasting time navigating disconnected consoles and start managing your Cisco Nexus infrastructure through a single, unified lens. Cisco Cloud Control streamlines cross-domain troubleshooting by integrating your Nexus One estate, ensuring your infrastructure stays optimized for complex AI workloads and whatever comes next.