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Nobody Trusts AI Agents on the Network: at Networking Field Day 41 - Tech Field Day Takeaways
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One thing was made very clear at Networking Field Day, AI should not and will not change the network on its own. In this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways, Tom Hollingsworth breaks down the three biggest themes from Networking Field Day 41. While AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) dominated presentations from vendors like Cisco, HPE, OpsMill, and SevenSignal, the industry remains firmly locked in "read-only" mode. Tom unpacks the trust gap preventing automated closed-loop changes, why the lack of a defined source of truth and digital twin leaves enterprise networks unprepared for autonomous reasoning, and how AI infrastructure demands are rapidly shifting from massive training clusters to disaggregated inference workloads that test stateful firewalls. This and more on Tech Field Day Takeaways, part of Tech Field Day Plus.
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