--- title: Extending Infrastructure Fabric: The Journey to... description: Cisco's acquisition of Isovalent in 2024 brings eBPF-based Cilium and Tetragon technology into the enterprise networking portfolio. Integrated with Cisco Nexus... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/extending-infrastructure-fabric-the-journey-to-cloud-native-isovalent-networking-dwiqat8eb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Extending Infrastructure Fabric: The Journey to Cloud-Native Isovalent Networking | daily.dev og:description: Cisco's acquisition of Isovalent in 2024 brings eBPF-based Cilium and Tetragon technology into the enterprise networking portfolio. Integrated with Cisco Nexus... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/extending-infrastructure-fabric-the-journey-to-cloud-native-isovalent-networking-dwiqat8eb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DwIQAt8eB.png og:image:alt: Extending Infrastructure Fabric: The Journey to Cloud-Native Isovalent Networking og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Extending Infrastructure Fabric: The Journey to Cloud-Native Isovalent Networking **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cisco's acquisition of Isovalent in 2024 brings eBPF-based Cilium and Tetragon technology into the enterprise networking portfolio. Integrated with Cisco Nexus One, Isovalent extends cloud-native networking to enterprise data centers, enabling kernel-level performance, fine-grained security, and deep observability across Kubernetes, hybrid, and multicloud environments. The combination addresses AI workload demands by providing high-throughput, low-latency networking for large Kubernetes clusters running LLM training and inference, while also reducing cloud tool sprawl through a unified, policy-driven operational model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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