Eye On A.I. #312 Anurag Dhingra: Inside Cisco's Vision for AI-Powered Enterprise Systems
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Jan 7, 2026 Anurag Dhingra, Senior VP at Cisco with nearly two decades at the company, delves into how AI is revolutionizing enterprise infrastructure. He discusses the importance of robust AI integration, from self-healing networks to agentic AI. Anurag explores the balance between cloud and edge models and how purpose-built AI systems enhance network reliability. He also highlights security challenges posed by AI agents and advocates for a diversified model ecosystem. Listeners gain insights into practical AI applications that enhance operational efficiency across enterprises.
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Infrastructure Enables Practical AI
- Networking is foundational for AI to deliver value in real-world enterprise systems.
- AI adds value only when infrastructure simplifies operations, secures traffic, and improves user experience.
Conference Room Devices That Diagnose The Network
- Cisco stacks networking and collaboration so devices in conference rooms provide hop-by-hop observability to the application.
- This stacking reveals where problems occur from the room to the app and speeds troubleshooting.
AI For Autonomous Network Operations
- AI excels at optimizing and autonomously managing large-scale network deployments.
- Agentic systems can monitor, reason, and self-heal so IT focuses on higher-value outcomes.