What NFD40 Taught Me About AI Networking
I went into NFD40 thinking the AI networking pitches were going to be the marketing layer dressed up in new vocabulary, and I came out convinced it’s a different design problem.
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Upscale AI at NFD40: The Pitch Before the Product
“We haven’t announced any products yet.
Selector at NFD40: Show Your Work
Most “AI-powered observability” pitches you sit through ask you to trust the model.
Networks Are Graphs. NetAI Acts Like It.
Dr. Deepak Kakadia got about ninety seconds into his NFD40 talk before he said the thing nobody else on the AI Ops circuit is willing to say out loud. LLMs were invented to model human behavior.
AI Networks Can't Use SDN. Netris Built What's Next.
Alex Saroyan had about ninety seconds onstage before he made the architectural claim that the rest of the AI-networking conversation has been ducking.
AI NOC, Not AI-on-NOC: Aviz Flips the Stack
Thomas Scheibe walked on stage and said the quiet part out loud.
Ethernet Commoditizes Everything. Except EOS
Halfway through Tom Emmons’ scale-out segment at NFD40, a fellow delegate looked at Arista’s load-balancing slide and said what most of us were thinking… this could have any vendor’s logo on it.
One Throat to Choke, or Any Silicon You Want: Cisco at NFD40
Cisco showed up to NFD40 selling two different pitches in the same session, and nobody on stage reconciled them.
Nokia at NFD40: Networking in the AI Era
I’ve been building networks for nearly thirty years. I understand leaf-spine fabrics, BGP design, VRF isolation, ECMP, and congestion management.
Networking Field Day 40 – Back at it again
I’m Heading to Networking Field Day 40 I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected as a delegate for Networking Field Day 40, taking place April 8–10, 2026 in Silicon Valley.
Will 2023 be the year of Artificial Intelligence for InfoSec?
Gartner has been saying that “next big thing” in network security is the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies for years now… Mainly because these …
AIOps the next big thing for Enterprise IT?
But how does all of this relate to IT Infrastructure and Operations? AIOps is the combination of AI and IT Operations.