The Internet of Agents Vijoy Pandey, Ph.D January 22, 2025 Lets take two simple examples of Ensemble of Multi-Agent Apps (internet-scale) that both require Cisco to provide secure connectivity. Workflow example A / Deploying and managing SaaS footprint: Think about an agentic workflow to deploy an enterprise IT SaaS software (say, for sales forecasting, new logos and expansions outcome measurements). The human IT operator would iterate with a planner agent to define business goals and size the application and its SLOs. That planner agent would then decompose the task into many build and deploy tasks, potentially working with a ticketing work- flow agent (e.g., ServiceNow). The ServiceNow agents would work with various other agents from Salesforce, Hubspot and other providers to size and deploy those apps. In parallel, agents from Cisco and Microsoft would ensure that the deployed apps are safe, secure, within budget, and within their SLO boundaries. Figure 4: The Internet of Agents will securely connect agentic applications of all types Workflow Example B / Drug discovery: A human would first iterate with an AI agent to plan the whole discovery process—the intent for discovering the drug, break that down into executable steps, the safety and compliance guardrails that they would need to align with, and so on. That plan would then invoke an AI agent analyzing protein structures to propose the set of potentially viable drugs (a step known as in-silico discovery). This agent would then collaborate with an embedded robotic agent performing wet lab experiments. Additional agents would perform drug safety checks, compliance checks, drug stability checks. And all of these AI agents would iterate till the intent of the drug discovery is achieved and we go for animal or human trials. Figure 5: Evolution from Simple to Multi-Agent to Ensemble of Agent Apps and the need for a new communication layer ©2025 Outshift by Cisco and/or its afÏliates. All rights reserved. 7