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Deterministic Networks: Rebuilding the AI Backbone
Graphiant Founder and President Khalid Raza explains why the AI era demands a new approach to connectivity, one built on deterministic infrastructure, observability, sovereignty, and automation rather than overlays. As AI traffic shifts east-west and agents operate everywhere, can existing IP VPN infrastructure evolve into the programmable AI fabric enterprises need?
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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Khalid Raza of Graphiant:
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Khalid Raza, Founder & Visionary, Graphiant; Inventor of SD-WAN
Khalid Raza has spent three decades thinking about a problem most people don’t
know exists: how information actually moves across the world, and why the
infrastructure carrying it keeps breaking under the weight of its own complexity.
He arrived at Cisco in 1993, just as the commercial internet was finding its
footing, and spent the next seventeen years inside the machinery of global
connectivity, architecting networks for the carriers and institutions that form the
backbone of modern commerce — including AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom,
and JP Morgan Chase. When those networks failed, business stopped. Khalid’s
instinct, then as now, was to ask whether the failure was a symptom of something
more structural, and whether a cleaner idea existed somewhere upstream.
That instinct produced SD-WAN. As co-founder and CTO of Viptela, Khalid
applied software-defined principles to wide-area networking at a moment when
most of the industry considered the problem already solved. Viptela’s acquisition
by Cisco for $610 million validated the approach; the $8 billion industry that
followed validated the idea.
His company, Graphiant, is the next chapter in that same path of inquiry. The
question Khalid is pursuing now is whether enterprise networking can be rebuilt
from first principles, to bring about intelligent infrastructure for the next
generation of networks.
Executives at the Edge podcast is brought to you by Mplify, a global alliance of network, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise organizations working together to accelerate the AI-powered digital economy through standardization, automation, certification, and collaboration.
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By MplifyGraphiant Founder and President Khalid Raza explains why the AI era demands a new approach to connectivity, one built on deterministic infrastructure, observability, sovereignty, and automation rather than overlays. As AI traffic shifts east-west and agents operate everywhere, can existing IP VPN infrastructure evolve into the programmable AI fabric enterprises need?
Subscribe on Your Favorite Podcast Platform
Apple Spotify Pandora YouTube RSS Feed
In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Khalid Raza of Graphiant:
Learn More
About Our Guest
Khalid Raza, Founder & Visionary, Graphiant; Inventor of SD-WAN
Khalid Raza has spent three decades thinking about a problem most people don’t
know exists: how information actually moves across the world, and why the
infrastructure carrying it keeps breaking under the weight of its own complexity.
He arrived at Cisco in 1993, just as the commercial internet was finding its
footing, and spent the next seventeen years inside the machinery of global
connectivity, architecting networks for the carriers and institutions that form the
backbone of modern commerce — including AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom,
and JP Morgan Chase. When those networks failed, business stopped. Khalid’s
instinct, then as now, was to ask whether the failure was a symptom of something
more structural, and whether a cleaner idea existed somewhere upstream.
That instinct produced SD-WAN. As co-founder and CTO of Viptela, Khalid
applied software-defined principles to wide-area networking at a moment when
most of the industry considered the problem already solved. Viptela’s acquisition
by Cisco for $610 million validated the approach; the $8 billion industry that
followed validated the idea.
His company, Graphiant, is the next chapter in that same path of inquiry. The
question Khalid is pursuing now is whether enterprise networking can be rebuilt
from first principles, to bring about intelligent infrastructure for the next
generation of networks.
Executives at the Edge podcast is brought to you by Mplify, a global alliance of network, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise organizations working together to accelerate the AI-powered digital economy through standardization, automation, certification, and collaboration.
More Episodes
Interested in sharing your industry perspective as a podcast guest? Contact Us!
The post Deterministic Networks: Rebuilding the AI Backbone appeared first on Mplify Alliance.