Your journey to intelligent NetOps begins at Cisco Live

Visit BlueCat’s booth or book a meeting now to learn more about how our solutions can help you build a network that supports constant change.

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The article announces BlueCat’s presence at Cisco Live 2026 and showcases its Intelligent NetOps solutions designed to help network teams manage complex hybrid environments spanning cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and edge locations. It explains the real-world problem of fragmented telemetry, overloaded teams, and risky change processes, and describes how BlueCat’s unified visibility, AI-powered LiveAssist workflows, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations deliver contextual intelligence, faster root-cause analysis, and automated remediation. Key outcomes highlighted include an average 50% reduction in mean time to repair, improved resilience for critical infrastructure, and accelerated operational workflows through automation.

What operational problems does BlueCat aim to solve at Cisco Live 2026?

BlueCat aims to address the operational pain points of fragmented telemetry, slow and uncertain change processes, and overburdened network teams operating across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, remote, and edge environments. The company emphasizes the need for real-time unified visibility and contextual intelligence to reduce manual correlation, speed root-cause analysis, and validate changes confidently. Demonstrations focus on unifying DDI, observability, identity, traffic, and policy into a single operational model to lower risk, shorten troubleshooting time, and improve operational confidence.

How does LiveAssist help network teams troubleshoot and act on network issues?

LiveAssist is described as an AI-powered network agent and virtual engineer that delivers real-time and historical intelligence to help teams investigate issues, identify root causes, and receive prescriptive recommendations. It combines telemetry, DDI data, configuration information, and identity context into conversational workflows that reduce manual correlation and accelerate decision-making. LiveAssist enables operationalization of AI across network operations by surfacing insights on load, performance, and traffic, performing root-cause analysis, and recommending actions to improve resiliency, performance, and security while preserving human control.

What are MCP servers and how do they integrate with AI and enterprise workflows?

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are presented as a tech preview that connects BlueCat’s network intelligence with AI agents, enterprise workflows, and development environments. MCP servers provide secure access to a structured network context so AI systems and integrations can query, analyze, and act on operational data more effectively. These integrations are intended to enable agentic AI capabilities such as detecting and prioritizing issues, automating workflows, and supporting self-healing behaviors while ensuring human oversight where necessary.

Today’s enterprise networks are complex to change, difficult to troubleshoot, and challenging to operate predictably.

They span cloud, SaaS, on-premises infrastructure, remote sites, edge locations, and constantly changing workloads. Telemetry volumes continue to explode while operational context becomes increasingly fragmented. And network teams are constantly fielding change requests, adding users and devices, and responding to security threats.

The result is overworked and under-resourced network teams.

If you’re attending Cisco Live 2026 and evaluating:

  • AI for network operations;
  • Observability platforms;
  • DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) modernization;
  • Network automation; and/or
  • Operational resilience strategies,

Stop by the BlueCat booth (No. 8409) to learn firsthand how our Intelligent NetOps solutions can help you build a network that supports constant change without increasing operational, performance, or security risks.

Or, if you’re ready for a more in-depth conversation, book a meeting with us. We’d love to provide personalized insights and walk you through tailored demos. (Plus, if you book in advance, you’ll receive an exclusive swag bag and be entered to win a Nintendo Switch 2!)

In this post, you can read on for more depth about what you can see firsthand at BlueCat’s booth, as well as learn why our portfolio of offerings matters for network teams. We hope to see you from May 31 through June 4 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

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What you’ll see firsthand at BlueCat’s booth

Troubleshooting network issues, changing the network, and determining whether changes have the desired effect are difficult and time-consuming. Teams disagree on causes, changes require constant validation, and complexity undermines confidence in operational data.

The fix starts at the network’s foundation. Organizations need real-time, unified network visibility and contextual intelligence to empower teams to act confidently and reduce risk. That’s the idea behind Intelligent NetOps.

Our booth will feature hands-on demonstrations of how BlueCat’s solutions directly address the operational challenges network teams face every day.

Unified network visibility

We’ll demonstrate how you can connect DDI, observability, identity, traffic, and policy into a single operational model. Instead of isolated dashboards and disconnected telemetry, you get a unified, real-time view of your network.

The result is faster root-cause analysis, better operational context, and greater confidence when making changes across complex hybrid environments.

Al-driven operational workflows

You can witness our AI-powered network agent, LiveAssist, delivering real-time intelligence on the network’s state and recommended operational improvements. LiveAssist enables organizations to: 

  • Operationalize AI across network operations
  • Understand load and performance issues with AI-enabled workloads, traffic, and inference operations
  • Perform root cause analysis
  • Receive prescriptive recommendations on actions to take to improve network resiliency, performance, and security

LiveAssist virtual engineer

You can also discover how LiveAssist equips network teams to investigate issues, identify root causes, and take decisive action through a conversational workflow powered by real-time and historical network intelligence.

By combining telemetry, DDI data, configuration information, and identity context, LiveAssist reduces manual correlation and accelerates decision-making.

MCP servers and broader agentic AI integrations

We’ll also provide a tech preview of our Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, which connect BlueCat network intelligence with AI agents, enterprise workflows, and development environments. These integrations provide secure access to a structured network context, enabling AI systems to query, analyze, and act on operational data more effectively.

Together, these capabilities can shift organizations toward intelligent, self-healing networks. They can confidently detect and prioritize issues, automate workflows, and ensure human control where it matters most.

Why BlueCat’s offerings matter for network teams

Your network team doesn’t need more disconnected alerts.

You need trusted visibility, rapid validation, better context, coordinated workflows, and reliable automation. BlueCat can help you move from fragmented operations toward a trusted operational model built around visibility, intelligence, automation, and control.

Organizations that adopt BlueCat’s Intelligent NetOps solutions are already seeing measurable operational improvements, including:

  • An average 50% reduction in mean time to repair (according to a Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study),
  • Improved resilience for critical infrastructure, and
  • Faster operational workflows through automation.

When networking teams have real-time intelligence of the state of their network, they can deploy and make changes much faster, with far greater confidence in the outcome and dramatically reduced risk.

Our mission is to help network teams move quickly, boost confidence, reduce downtime, accelerate troubleshooting, and move toward an intelligent, self-healing network. As your network transforms, your ability to operate swiftly and confidently becomes your competitive advantage.

Learn more about how BlueCat is moving agentic AI from insight to action with its new AI integrations.


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Kyle Roblyer is BlueCat’s Senior Director of Product Marketing. He helps introduce our products to the world and ensures everyone understands them. He’s not too bad at open mic night either. Find him at linkedin.com/in/kyle-roblyer-47096.

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