How AI will Improve Networks

Extensive first piece, more to follow, by Cisco on Networks and AI.  Click through below.

Enterprise Networks
Improving Networks with Artificial Intelligence

John Apostolopoulos, Ph.D.
June 5, 2019  

Artificial intelligence is changing how we manage networks, and it’s a change we need. Because as we rely more every day on networks and networked applications to keep businesses agile, secure, and competitive, we also need more advanced tools to keep on top of the networks themselves. AI will us make network operations simpler, smarter, safer, and speedier. They help us manage our networks at machine speed.

In this and upcoming blog posts I’m going to discuss how AI technologies will apply to networking.

Before I do, please keep in mind that AI is a large and growing field, with several branches. In networking, there are three subfields of AI that are most relevant:

Natural language processing (NLP), which includes speech recognition and natural language understanding.

Machine learning (ML), in which we use data to learn patterns, so we can form inferences on new data for tasks like classification or prediction.

Machine reasoning (MR), which includes using domain-specific knowledge bases (facts, relationships, and rules) and manipulations of the knowledge to answer questions.

I’ll refer to “AI” if I mean multiple of the above or related techniques. I’ll refer to a single technique if I want to be more specific. ... "