AI
Practical AI workflows, automation, and infrastructure notes.
NVIDIA vs Intel GPUs for Local AI: A Beginner Buying Guide
A noob-friendly guide to choosing NVIDIA or Intel GPUs for local AI, with practical model recommendations, VRAM tiers, media-server notes, and tool support warnings.
The Cisco Catalyst Smart Switch Story: C9350, C9550, Silicon One, and the AI-Ready Campus
Cisco’s Smart Switch story is bigger than one SKU. It connects C9350 access, C9550 aggregation and core, Silicon One, IOS XE, telemetry, security, post-quantum readiness, and AI-era campus design.
Branch Network Design for the AI Era
AI-era branch design needs SD-WAN, SSE, secure access, local resilience, application steering, Wi-Fi capacity, segmentation, and experience telemetry.
Implementing AgenticOps Safely: Human Approval, Audit Trails, and Rollback
Agentic network operations need guardrails: approved action classes, human review, role limits, dry runs, rollback plans, and audit trails before any production change.
Building a Network Digital Twin Workflow
A network digital twin is useful when it models topology, intent, policy, dependencies, and change impact. Here is a practical workflow for using it safely.
AgenticOps for Network Engineers: Useful Automation or Marketing Term?
AgenticOps is useful only when it is grounded in telemetry, topology, approvals, simulation, and rollback. Here is how network engineers should evaluate it.
Cisco Cloud Control Explained: What It Means for Network Operations
Cisco Cloud Control is more than another dashboard. It is Cisco’s attempt to make cross-domain operations, AI Canvas, telemetry, agents, and governed workflows part of one operating model.
Cisco Secure Access: Where SSE, ZTNA, SD-WAN, and AI Security Meet
A practical look at Cisco Secure Access, SSE, ZTNA, Meraki SD-WAN integration, AI application control, and how to design a migration away from legacy VPN assumptions.
Cisco Live 2026: Network Announcements That Matter
Cisco Live US 2026 in Las Vegas centered on Cisco Cloud Control, AgenticOps, Multicloud Fabric, secure campus and branch networking, Live Protect, Cisco IQ, quantum readiness, and new learning paths for network teams.
AI Workflow Notes: Start Here
A grounded introduction to using AI in technical work: documentation, troubleshooting, config review, automation, guardrails, privacy, and practical workflows for IT teams.