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AI Inference Doesn't Need New Data Centers
Training does. Inference can live in buildings we already have.
12 Sep 2026 · 14 min read
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AI for Network Leaders: Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A
The speaker panel and audience Q&A from Selector's AI for Network Leaders event in New York. Attendees put their questions straight to the speakers: rolling out agentic capabilities, and earning trust for AI in production networks.
24 Aug 2026 · 1 min read
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Making AI (net)work: Six Fundamentals for a Successful AI-Integrated Network
A talk at a Selector event on why most AI-in-networking projects stall, and six things to get right before you pick a model. Most of them are about people and data, not technology.
24 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
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Bridging Silos with AI and Telemetry
A short clip from the Tech Field Day Podcast at NFD40. Yes, networks need more telemetry, but only if the data is clean and you look at the whole system rather than the network in isolation.
13 Apr 2026 · 1 min read
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Networking Needs More Telemetry
A Tech Field Day Podcast panel ahead of NFD40 with Tom Hollingsworth and Scott Robohn. Modern gear can finally give us all the telemetry we want. The harder problem is what to do with it.
7 Apr 2026 · 2 min read
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Why "People Connector" Is the Ultimate Superpower in Tech
Bob Slevin asked what my superpower is. The answer is connecting people. We covered the USNUA, why certs still matter early on, the retailer who built their own router for 1,600 stores, and the punk-rock skate-rat path from a movie theater to network engineering.
1 Apr 2026 · 3 min read
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AI Adoption in Networking
I recently joined Greg Bryan to talk about the real state of AIOps in network management. What's working, what's hype, and where engineers should
5 Feb 2026 · 2 min read
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Attention Really Is All You Need
In 2017, Google researchers published a foundational paper called "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the transformer architecture that now powers ChatGPT, Claude and basically
24 Jan 2026 · 3 min read
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Unwrapping AI and Network Automation at The Network Buzz
A December episode of Laketec's Network Buzz with Mike Trappe and Phil Wightman: HPE Aruba Networking's new Central, what we brought back from AutoCon, how to make the business case for automation, where AI lowers the barrier, and Christmas ales.
17 Dec 2025 · 1 min read
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AI Won't Replace Network Engineers
After spending some time working with model context protocol (MCP) servers plus other natural language AI interfaces that integrate with select network management and monitoring systems, I have
26 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
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Applied AI for Networking
Mike Trappe and I had a great conversation on the Network Buzz, a Laketec Podcast. We took a fast, plain-English tour of AI for networking. I traced
12 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
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AI for Network Intelligence
Check out the new article that I worked on for Pipeline Magazine called "AI for Network Intelligence"
9 Aug 2024 · 1 min read