It’s been the year of AI, and expectations are high as enterprise network vendors begin to deliver on the promise of AI networking. Industry players have long been touting the benefits of AI-based operations (AIOps) to help resource-constrained network teams troubleshoot and remediate performance issues, and modern network services such as SD-WAN, 5G and SASE rely on AI to automate some network provisioning and security tasks. Now the release of Microsoft-funded ChatGPT has elevated AI to a C-level imperative, and AI innovation is heating up.
