network engineer

They're not paying attention.

Do you think the roles we have now with like IT engineers, network engineers will exist in five years? I have a question that's kind of been keeping me up at night.

Is there a future for network engineers in the age of AI? Like in five years, are we going to exist? That's why I'm here at Cisco Live, the largest networking conference in the entire world.

And I'm asking this question.

I need the answer.

I'm asking Cisco people.

I'm asking network engineers who come here, 22,000 of them.

Hey, what do you think about AI? Are you worried? Do you currently use AI? Is this a thing for you? And let me tell you, this year feels different for network engineers.

And you can.

Now, what does that mean for us, for network engineers? Well, it means we better start learning some AWS because more and more companies are starting to move their infrastructure to the cloud.

And they're starting out smaller, maybe doing hybrid deployments, but it's happening.

More and more of my buddies I talk to say, oh yeah, we're moving to AWS and we're having to learn from AWS.

The good news for us is, hey, they want network engineers.

In AWS, they have the whole certification track just like Cisco, which is pretty cool.

So anyways, I talked with Anthony who is a networking guy through and through CCIE and he's jumped into AWS.