SNET Systems Signs 'Business Transformation Strategic Partnership' with Cisco... Expands AI Lifecycle Services

Chairman Hyo-Dae Park of Snet Group (center right in the photo) and CEO Jihui Choi of Cisco Korea (center left in the photo), along with representatives from both companies, are posing for a commemorative photo to celebrate the signing of the 'Business Transformation Strategic Partnership.' Provided by Snet

AI infrastructure and services specialist SNET Systems (Co-CEOs Hyungwoo Kim and Namjak Lee) has established a strategic partnership with Cisco to drive a business transformation initiative, with the goal of expanding its service offerings centered around AI infrastructure. The company plans to strengthen its capabilities across the entire AI lifecycle—from consulting and design to implementation and operations—in order to establish a foundation for long-term transformation of its business structure.

This partnership was formed as Cisco strongly recognized SNET Systems' business capabilities, experience in system construction and operation, proprietary platforms, and AI technology. Both companies plan to make joint investments to enhance their technical, sales, marketing, and operational competencies.

Initially, SNET Systems will concentrate on architectural consulting and enhancing its AI-based operations (AIOps) capabilities. By integrating its proprietary operations platform with Cisco Cloud Control and Cisco IQ, the company aims to offer AIOps services that comprehensively manage customers' IT assets, contracts, device status, and renewal information.

The technology center, known as the ‘S2F Center,’ will serve as a hub where customers can directly experience and validate these services. Through this, SNET Systems is planning to pursue both technological validation and commercialization, enabling the application of AI-based operations services in real customer environments.

The two companies will also jointly enhance Cisco’s unified solution offerings. They plan to integrate and provide design, construction, and operations services across five major domains: AI data centers, digital work environments, operational technology (OT), security, and IT operations based on Splunk.

The flagship service is the 'AI-Ready Data Center.' Aimed at enterprises and public institutions, this integrated offering provides computing power, graphic processing units (GPUs), storage, network, and AI operational environments, with the goal of reducing both risk and deployment time in the construction of AI infrastructure.

In the area of security, SNET Group affiliates such as Inseong Information and INET Bank will combine their capabilities to deliver integrated services. The group-wide technical and business strengths will be linked with Cisco's solutions to meet the specific needs of each customer.

An SNET Systems representative stated, “By combining our long-accumulated business expertise with our proprietary platform and AI technology, we are expanding the value we can deliver to customers. We will take responsibility for the entire process—from diagnosing customer IT environments to operations—as an integrated service.”

The representative added, “We will continue to strengthen differentiated value-added services that directly contribute to customer business outcomes, with a focus on Cisco’s unified solution offerings.”

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