India, Aug. 19 -- As enterprises move Artificial Intelligence (AI) from experimentation to production, the infrastructure beneath it is becoming increasingly critical. Agentic AI adds another dimension: autonomous agents operate continuously and at machine speed, potentially multiplying network traffic, infrastructure demand, and security risks. Networks, compute, data, observability, and cybersecurity are consequently becoming integral to enterprise AI strategies.

Samir Mishra, Managing Director, Enterprise, Cisco India and South Asia, believes AI is becoming fundamentally network-bound and could trigger a networking supercycle. In this interaction with Voice&Data, he explains why enterprises need to address infrastructure debt, what ha...