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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.
I’d like to send a huge thanks to our friends at Outshift by Cisco for their support of the podcast and for sponsoring today’s show. Coming up, we dig into AGNTCY, an open source collective building the Internet of Agents. Backed by AI innovators like Cisco, CrewAI, LangChain, and MongoDB, and supporting agentic protocols like A2A, ACP, and MCP, AGNTCY connects agentic systems across vendors, protocols, and frameworks, to solve the biggest problems of discovery, interoperability, and scalability for enterprises.
Visit AGNTCY.org to learn more and explore use cases now.
