Mission-critical AI workloads require sub-10ms latency. To realize a true operational return on AI investment, the infrastructure must become ‘agentic’ or capable of independent decision-making. Agentic infrastructure, on the other hand, uses AI to understand intent, forecast traffic patterns, and re-route capacity without human intervention. The agentic AI anticipates this usage pattern and drives traffic to optimize the network accordingly. The human elementThe use of agentic AI does not replace the need for network engineers.