Rise of Agentic AI in NetOps: When Networks Start Managing Themselves
Agentic AI is the next stage of network operations, but it is not a permission slip to let a chatbot push configs into production. In 2026, the practical model is AI agents that triage, validate, and optimize from live telemetry while humans keep control of guardrails, approvals, and blast radius. According to Gartner via PagerDuty (2025), 70% of enterprises will deploy agentic AI agents to operate infrastructure by 2029, and according to Cisco (2026), Agentic Workflows already executed more than 165,000 times in the last 30 days. ...