Token costs not quite sorted, but on-prem will be an option
Cisco has developed AI models that can solve networking problems and is close to releasing the tools, plus the Cloud Control agentic ops tool that puts its models to work.Cloud Control is Cisco’s attempt to tame console sprawl, but creating a new interface to its product portfolio driven by agentic AI.The networking giant says Cloud Control will allow users to query their infrastructure to do things like find the source of a single glitchy connection. Today, figuring that out could see NetAdmins look for info across several product consoles. Cisco reckons Cloud Control will diagnose issues more quickly, by using agents that source and analyze data from whichever parts of its product portfolio you’ve deployed.
DJ Sampath, senior veep and general manager of Cisco’s AI Software and Platform biz, suggested agents running under Cloud Control could diagnose a single device’s inability to connect to a Wi-Fi network on one floor of a building by referencing security policies that might prohibit the connection and the channels an access point offers. If the agents find a fault that requires a reboot, Sampath said Cisco’s new toy can explain the blast radius of that effort so NetAdmins can understand when to press Off and On again.
