--- title: Powering the AI-ready branch with agentic operations and... description: Cisco announced at Cisco Live 2026 Las Vegas a refreshed branch and WAN architecture targeting AI-era enterprise needs. Key pillars include AgenticOps for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/powering-the-ai-ready-branch-with-agentic-operations-and-quantum-era-security-gdgcnni40 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Powering the AI-ready branch with agentic operations and quantum-era security | daily.dev og:description: Cisco announced at Cisco Live 2026 Las Vegas a refreshed branch and WAN architecture targeting AI-era enterprise needs. Key pillars include AgenticOps for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/powering-the-ai-ready-branch-with-agentic-operations-and-quantum-era-security-gdgcnni40 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gDgcnNI40.png og:image:alt: Powering the AI-ready branch with agentic operations and quantum-era security 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. # Powering the AI-ready branch with agentic operations and quantum-era security **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cisco announced at Cisco Live 2026 Las Vegas a refreshed branch and WAN architecture targeting AI-era enterprise needs. Key pillars include AgenticOps for autonomous network operations, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) natively integrated into IOS XE for protecting traffic against harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks, and an expanded Cisco 8000 Series Secure Router family. The Cisco Unified Branch platform combines routing, switching, Wi-Fi, and SD-WAN automation with low-code tooling (Branch as Code via Terraform, Cisco Workflows). A new hybrid mesh firewall capability embeds SnortML and Encrypted Visibility Engine into branch routers. The Cisco Multicloud Fabric simplifies site-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud connectivity, replacing legacy hub-and-spoke designs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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