Cisco Warns Agentic AI Will Put New Pressure on Enterprise Networks

Cisco executives at Cisco Live warned that AI is shifting the primary infrastructure constraint from compute to networks, forecasting a multi-fold increase in traffic as organizations move from chatbots to agentic AI. They illustrated enterprise use cases (e.g., Starbucks optimizing supply via real-time data), raised security concerns about AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery, and promoted Cisco IQ for asset visibility and automated remediation to prepare networks for this next phase.