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Collaborating on sovereign AI infrastructure for Canada

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MONTRÉAL, September 29, 2026 – Bell and Cisco today announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on a sovereign critical infrastructure offering for Canada, bringing together Bell’s data centre, network and operations capabilities with Cisco’s AI, security, observability, infrastructure monitoring and management, and Sovereign Critical Infrastructure technologies. 

Together, the companies will work on a practical approach intended to help Canadian organizations deploy, secure and manage AI infrastructure in Canada, while giving customers more flexibility in how they access and scale sovereign AI capacity.

The collaboration will focus on three core areas: 

      • Building a Canadian platform for sovereign AI: Bell and Cisco will work to bring together Bell’s Canadian data centre space, power, cooling, physical security, connectivity and operations services with Cisco AI infrastructure, security, observability, management and Sovereign Critical Infrastructure portfolio of technologies. 
      • Supporting modular AI infrastructure deployments: Bell and Cisco will assess how Cisco AI PODs architectures, which provide modular building blocks for different AI workloads, and relevant capabilities from Cisco’s Sovereign Critical Infrastructure portfolio can be combined with Canadian infrastructure, connectivity and operations services. 
      • Developing flexible commercial models: Bell and Cisco will assess flexible consumption models, so customers can better align costs with how they use or reserve AI infrastructure. 

Advancing trusted AI infrastructure in Canada

The collaboration builds on Bell’s work through Bell AI Fabric and Cisco’s sovereign AI infrastructure advancements to help expand the capabilities needed for trusted AI adoption in Canada for customers that need greater control over critical digital environments. Together, Bell and Cisco will focus on making sovereign AI infrastructure more practical for Canadian organizations to deploy, operate and scale.

Read the full press release. To find out more about Bell AI Fabric and its capabilities, contact your Bell representative or visit the Bell AI Fabric page.