AI Is Changing Network Management. How Smart Can Networks Get?
InformationWeek, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Network management systems can now correlate siloed signals and auto-resolve problems, raising questions about how autonomous networks should become.
The article explores how AI-driven network management systems now correlate previously siloed signals, helping IT teams identify critical problems and, in some cases, resolve them automatically.
Drawing on analysts from Omdia and EY, it examines the open debate over how much of network management AI should eventually handle with less human intervention, and whether that makes networks themselves smarter or simply makes management tools smarter.
The piece frames autonomous network management as a spectrum rather than a single destination.