AI
Network Source of Truth Before AgenticOps: NetBox, Nautobot, and Intent Data
A practical source-of-truth guide for preparing NetBox, Nautobot, and intent data before AI-assisted network automation.
Cisco Catalyst C9550 vs C9350: Choose the Right Campus Role
Map C9350 access requirements and an incumbent C9500 design to a C9550 model, then verify software, optics, licensing, failure tests, and rollback before migration.
Cisco Live 2026 Lab Build: A Small-Scale Reference Architecture
Plan an isolated lab for segmentation, branch routing, private-app access, telemetry, and governed changes, with failure and rollback exercises; this is a proposed build, not reported test results.
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.
Designing an AI-Ready Campus Network After Cisco Live 2026
An AI-ready campus network needs segmentation, telemetry, resilient wired and wireless design, cloud access, identity integration, and a change workflow that can support agentic operations.
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
Evaluate Cisco Cloud Control through a read-only pilot, checking connected-product prerequisites, regional eligibility, approval authority, telemetry quality, and rollback before allowing staged or automated changes.
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.