Cisco Live 2026 unveiled Cisco's AgenticOps era, where AI agents work alongside IT teams, generating 450% more network traffic. Cisco's vertically integrated platform, Cloud Control, unifies management across domains, enabling humans and AI to collaborate seamlessly. This marks a transformative shift in IT operations, emphasizing autonomy with human oversight.

Cisco Live 2026 marked a pivotal shift towards an agentic operating model, emphasizing AI-driven infrastructure management. Cisco Cloud Control and Unified Edge highlight a future where AI and human collaboration streamline operations, enhance security, and optimize distributed environments. This evolution promises consistent, automated, and integrated enterprise solutions, transforming infrastructure into a strategic business asset.

The era of agentic operations is here, and organizations must modernize infrastructure to support autonomous workloads at scale.

Inside an enterprise network you often can't send data to a hosted model, and a local frontier model is too expensive to run. A ~30B model is the practical sweet spot, but it hallucinates, its knowledge is thin and its usable context is short. Here's how to build a real agent on top of it anyway.