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Episode 5 · Inside the Cisco Smart Switch: Silicon One, IOS XE, eBPF, and Live Protect
What makes a Cisco Smart Switch different from a traditional enterprise switch? And how can technologies like Silicon One, IOS XE, and eBPF work together to bring new security capabilities directly into network infrastructure?
In this episode of Cisco Security from the Network Outward, we go inside the Cisco Smart Switch to explore the hardware and software architecture behind Cisco's evolving approach to secure enterprise networking.
We'll examine how high-performance packet forwarding, programmable software, and runtime security capabilities work together—and why understanding the…
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