Cisco Calisti is a Kubernetes networking platform designed to simplify the deployment and management of service meshes for microservices architectures. It offers observability, security, and traffic management features to efficiently handle complex application environments. Calisti aims to improve operational efficiencies by providing tools to visualize, control, and optimize service-to-service communications in cloud-native applications. This platform is part of Cisco's suite of solutions intended to enhance application performance and scalability.