Cisco Networking and Security Convergence, through the use of SDN-enabled programmability, comprehensive network visibility, AI/ML-powered insights, and cloud-enhanced automation, helps customers improve efficiency, speed, and flexibility; simplify operations; strengthen security; and bridge boundaries between platforms, locations, and organizations. It enables an elastic infrastructure stretching seamlessly to multiple clouds and scales to support bandwidth demand, performance needs, and new services while also securely connecting widely distributed users, places, and things.