Bell Canada, Cisco Plan to Jointly Develop Canadian Sovereign AI Infrastructure
By Adriano Marchese
Bell Canada and Cisco Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding to codevelop sovereign artificial-intelligence infrastructure for enterprise and government clients.
The two companies said Tuesday that under the MOU they would collaborate on sovereign AI infrastructure in Canada, pairing Bell's Canadian data centers, network and operations capabilities with Cisco's AI, security, observability, infrastructure monitoring and management.
Bell, the telecom subsidiary of BCE, and Cisco said the focus would be to offer locally hosted AI infrastructure that is more practical for Canadian organizations to deploy, operate and scale.
Under the terms of the agreement, the companies would focus on solution architectures to support different AI workloads, including training and inference, while giving customers the choice of where the critical systems and data are stored, they said.
The partnership is specifically targeted at regulated industries and other sectors where trust, control and resilience are critical, the companies said.
Financial terms of the agreement weren't disclosed.
Write to Adriano Marchese at adriano.marchese@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 29, 2026 08:57 ET (12:57 GMT)
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