Episode 52: AI Agents Are Coming to Your Network. Are You Ready?

AI Agents Are Coming to Your Network. Are You Ready?AI agents aren’t just another application running on the network. They’re becoming active “digital citizens,” initiating workflows, generating traffic, accessing services, and creating an entirely new set of performance, security, and visibility challenges for NetOps teams.In this episode of The NetOps Expert, Jeremy Rossbach welcomes back Nestor Falcon to explore what happens when agentic AI meets the enterprise network.They dig into why AI workloads can create very different traffic patterns, how network teams can distinguish application and AI performance issues from WAN problems, and why visibility into shadow AI and unauthorized endpoints is becoming increasingly important. They also discuss what it takes to prepare network fabrics for AI traffic, including latency, packet loss, configuration, traffic prioritization, and capacity.The conversation ultimately raises a bigger question for NetOps leaders: If AI agents are becoming a new class of network user, how do you monitor, govern, and optimize their experience of the network?Listen in for a practical look at the emerging relationship between AI for networks and networks for AI, and why network observability will be essential in this new era.