NetBrain’s David Mann, Global Services Leader, joined Nick Lippis on the Built for Trust Podcast for a conversation on how AI is changing the future of network operations.
In the episode, “From Observability to Reasoning: How AI Is Transforming Network Operations,” David discusses why traditional tools can detect network problems, but often cannot reason through them. That gap is becoming a major challenge for enterprise IT teams as networks grow more complex.
Nick and David cover what AI-driven network operations looks like in practice, including why context and intent are critical to effective automation, how standard changes and runbooks can become the foundation for autonomous agents, and where human oversight still plays an important role.
They also discuss how AI workloads are reshaping enterprise infrastructure, changing traffic patterns, and forcing network teams to rethink how they design and operate networks for the next era.