Building the Internet of Agents [Vijoy Pandey] - 737

Today, we're joined by Vijoy Pandey, SVP and general manager at Outshift by Cisco to discuss a foundational challenge for the enterprise: how do we make specialized agents from different vendors collaborate effectively? As companies like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft all develop their own agentic systems, integrating them creates a complex, probabilistic, and noisy environment, a stark contrast to the deterministic APIs of the past. Vijoy introduces Cisco's vision for an "Internet of Agents," a platform to manage this new reality, and its open-source implementation, AGNTCY. We explore the four phases of agent collaboration—discovery, composition, deployment, and evaluation—and dive deep into the communication stack, from syntactic protocols like A2A, ACP, and MCP to the deeper semantic challenges of creating a shared understanding between agents. Vijoy also unveils SLIM (Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging), a novel transport layer designed to make agent-to-agent communication quantum-safe, real-time, and efficient for multi-modal workloads.

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📖 CHAPTERS
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00:00 - Introduction
2:59 - Internet of Agents
4:21 - Agntcy
9:37 - Traditional integration vs. agentic style integration
13:26 - Jarvis
19:29 - Phases of agent-to-agent collaboration
23:20 - Challenges of integrating various agents from different platforms
28:52 - Communication protocols
30:33 - Protocol transport
34:05 - Probabilistic and deterministic workflows
40:04 - Protocols in syntax versus semantics
41:51 - A2A vs MCP
44:48 - SLIM from AGNTCY
49:44 - Customer persona of AGNTCY
52:11 - Use cases
53:09 - Future directions


🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES
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Building the Internet of Agents: Introducing AGNTCY.org - https://outshift.cisco.com/blog/build...
The Internet of Agents - https://outshift.cisco.com/the-intern...
AGNTCY - http://AGNTCY.org
From concept to code: AGNTCY’S Internet of Agents is now on GitHub - https://outshift.cisco.com/blog/agntc...


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