Why Container Networking Is the Foundation of AI Infrastructure

This episode is part of a seven-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month.

Containers have quietly become the foundation of modern AI infrastructure.

Cisco’s Thomas Graf, CTO of Cisco Security and Co-Founder of Isovalent, and Craig Connors, CTO of Cisco’s Infrastructure and Security Group, join Nick Lippis to explain how Isovalent’s Cilium became the default networking layer for Kubernetes, why Cisco acquired Isovalent, and why identity-based security has become essential for AI workloads and agentic systems.

The conversation explores how OpenAI is pushing container networking to unprecedented scale, why AI agents will actively circumvent security policies to accomplish a task, and how Cisco is converging networking and security through Isovalent, Tetragon, and Hypershield.

They also discuss why AI is driving some workloads back into the data center and what enterprises need to build secure, hybrid AI infrastructure.

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