Cisco Shares Jump on AI-Driven Sales and Earnings Outlook

Imagine Cisco makes the roads and traffic lights for the internet.

Now, with super-smart computers called AI, lots more data needs to travel really fast.

Cisco is making better roads and lights so these AI computers can talk to each other easily.

Because of this, Cisco told everyone they expect to make a lot more money next year than they thought before.

This made investors happy, and the price of Cisco's stock went up a lot.

They are working with other companies like Nvidia to make their AI roads even better.

They also bought a company called Splunk to help manage all this information.

Cisco's boss said the really big AI business will start speeding up later next year.