Kentik Blog: Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence is certainly a hot topic right now, but what does it mean for the networking industry? In this post, Phil Gervasi looks at the role of AI and LLM in networking and separates the hype from the reality.

Machine learning has taken the networking industry by storm, but is it just hype, or is it a valuable tool for engineers trying to solve real world problems? The reality of machine learning is that it’s simply another tool in a network engineer’s toolbox, and like any other tool, we use it when it makes sense, and we don’t use it when it doesn’t.