Bell, Cisco team up on Canadian sovereign AI infrastructure offer
BCE•BCE’s Bell Canada signed a memorandum of understanding with Cisco to develop a sovereign AI infrastructure offering for Canada, combining Bell’s data centers, networks and operations with Cisco technologies.
1. Planned AI offering
The planned offer would help Canadian organizations deploy, secure and manage AI infrastructure domestically, targeting government, regulated industries and other sensitive workloads. Work includes modular options using Cisco AI PODs tied to Bell connectivity and operations services. The companies are evaluating flexible commercial models to align customer costs with AI infrastructure usage.
