Cisco Reports AI Agents run 450% more traffic than same task in human hands
https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/cisco-agents-run-450-more-traffic-than-same-task-in-human-hands/
"The implications are significant, as consumer traffic is the primary contributor to overall internet and service provider network traffic. Without the impact of AI or agentic AI, network traffic is expected to grow 4x over the period 2025-2035, driven by the adoption of digital services. However, with the adoption of AI and agentic AI across many of those digital services, traffic is projected to grow 6.6x from today’s levels, or a 63% additional increment compared with the non-AI-impacted projection. A relevant portion of that traffic will be AI inference, which is expected to account for 25% of total traffic by 2035."
Seems bullish for Nokia as capacity is added across ISP's, enterprises, data centers, hyperscalers, etc.
I wonder what type of bottlenecks we'll see on the network side and imagine Tier 1 ISP's will need to add capacity to peering links/cloud connects.. Not to mention there will likely be more and more large private wave infrastructure being built.
FWIW I work in telecom and while I don't have any insider knowledge on what is being ordered or capacity adds, I can imagine this happening.