Reimagining the NOC: Building the Path to Autonomous Infrastructure

In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis and Peter Campbell, ONUG’s Security Researcher & Agentic AI Working Groups Lead, take an inside look at ONUG Collaborative’s Autonomous Infrastructure Working Group and its emerging reference architecture for AI-assisted network operations.

Nick and Peter explore how organizations can prepare the NOC for increasing levels of AI autonomy, starting with defining agent personas, permissions, and levels of autonomy before AI is allowed to interact with production infrastructure.

They walk through the Agentic Operations Loop and the controls needed to safely introduce AI into network operations, including human oversight, policy enforcement, auditability, and rollback. They also discuss why a hybrid human-AI model may be the most practical path toward autonomous infrastructure today.

Built and vetted by enterprise practitioners, the reference architecture provides a framework for advancing AI-assisted network operations while maintaining the controls needed to operate safely and responsibly.

Learn more about the ONUG Collaborative AI Networking & Autonomous Infrastructure Working Group and discover how vendors and enterprise practitioners can get involved.

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