--- title: The Future of Connectivity: Cisco Testifies Before... description: Cisco's Chief Architect for Service Provider Mobility, Bob Everson, testified before the Senate Commerce Telecom Subcommittee on how AI is transforming network... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-connectivity-cisco-testifies-before-senate-commerce-subcommittee-on-ai-native-network-cjulpiryc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Future of Connectivity: Cisco Testifies Before Senate Commerce Subcommittee on AI-Native Networking | daily.dev og:description: Cisco's Chief Architect for Service Provider Mobility, Bob Everson, testified before the Senate Commerce Telecom Subcommittee on how AI is transforming network... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-connectivity-cisco-testifies-before-senate-commerce-subcommittee-on-ai-native-network-cjulpiryc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cjulPIrYc.png og:image:alt: The Future of Connectivity: Cisco Testifies Before Senate Commerce Subcommittee on AI-Native Networking og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Future of Connectivity: Cisco Testifies Before Senate Commerce Subcommittee on AI-Native Networking **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cisco's Chief Architect for Service Provider Mobility, Bob Everson, testified before the Senate Commerce Telecom Subcommittee on how AI is transforming network infrastructure. Key points include a projected 209% surge in AI-driven campus and branch traffic over three years, AI agents generating 450% more traffic per task than human users, and the need for AI-native operations (AgenticOps) to enable self-healing, machine-speed networks. Everson outlined three policy priorities: accelerating the U.S. AI-native networking stack (including the AI-WIN collaboration with NVIDIA, MITRE, and T-Mobile), modernizing infrastructure permitting, and maintaining balanced spectrum policy to support 5G-Advanced and future 6G leadership. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much more network traffic do AI agents generate compared to humans doing the same task? AI agents generate 450 percent more traffic than a person performing the same task, according to Cisco's internal testing. Roughly 70 percent of that additional traffic comes from inference activity, reflecting the uplink-intensive, two-way nature of AI workloads compared to traditional downstream-optimized network traffic. _Engineers planning capacity for agentic AI workloads can track infrastructure impact data like this on daily.dev._ ### How much is AI expected to increase campus and branch network traffic? AI-driven campus and branch network traffic is projected to surge by 209 percent over the next three years, according to Cisco. This growth stems from AI workloads being heavily uplink-intensive, requiring more complex two-way communication than traditional downstream-focused applications like web content consumption. _Teams forecasting network capacity needs can follow AI traffic growth projections on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Leading the Next Era of Intelligent Connectivity](https://daily.dev/posts/leading-the-next-era-of-intelligent-connectivity-rmvchj7cj) · Cisco · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Mobility in the AI era: Building the infrastructure economies depend on](https://daily.dev/posts/mobility-in-the-ai-era-building-the-infrastructure-economies-depend-on-40qcuy1wh) · Cisco · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Survey Reveals AI Advances in Telecom: Networks and Automation in Driver’s Seat as Return on Investment Climbs](https://daily.dev/posts/survey-reveals-ai-advances-in-telecom-networks-and-automation-in-driver-s-seat-as-return-on-investm-p1ovwpwsr) · NVIDIA · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The 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