Netskope has launched NewEdge AI Fast Path, a new feature that aims to improve network performance and security for businesses making heavy use of artificial intelligence. The statement points out that companies are increasingly depending on AI, based applications. Still, they often encounter the challenge of how to combine high performance with thorough security measures. Based on the industry insights cited in the announcement, it appears that only around 18% of infrastructure and operations leaders are completely sure that their current teams and budgets can satisfy the performance, resilience, and security requirements of the AI era. Consequently, many enterprises are caught up in a dilemma of “security vs. speed”. On the one hand, they are degrading the user experience because of slow security inspection processes; on the other hand, they are leaving security controls aside to keep the performance at a desirable level. NewEdge AI Fast Path wants to solve this issue by intelligently deciding the best network routes to AI providers wherever they are hosted, public clouds, private environments, or even new “neo, cloud” architectures, thus guaranteeing faster and more efficient access to AI services without compromising security. Based on the NewEdge private cloud network that powers the Netskope One platform, the feature leverages sophisticated route control, a wide range of peering relationships, and optimized network paths to lower latency, enhance network resilience, and reduce operational costs of AI, driven workloads. The areas of focus for these upgrades belong to the current AI applications present such as conversational AI and agentic workflows, where the response time and how quickly the system can access data largely affect productivity and user experience.
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Thanks to AI Fast Path, companies are able to speed up the inference performancethis results in less delay in conversational AI between the user’s question and the system’s first response (time, to, first, token)at the same time, it also facilitates quicker processing of complex agentic AI workflows that are characterized by multiple prompts and iterative tasks. The capability also improves the performance of large language model (LLM) applications that rely on distributed datasets and external knowledge sources, including environments using Model Context Protocol gateways or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures.Enhancing linkages between AI models and corporate data, this technology helps generate live, context, rich outputs that are secure. This offering utilizes Netskope’s worldwide NewEdge structure that includes over 120 data centers in more than 75 regions, providing full, edge compute capabilities, so, enterprises can run entire SASE stacks and speed up traffic to AI applications. The company combines a global network area with routing intelligent optimization to help the enterprises deploy AI applications with security and performance maintained, along with the user experience consistency. In the whole, NewEdge AI Fast Path announcement is indicative of a rising trend among the players in the industry towards the development of AI, optimized infrastructure, thus, facilitating the integration of advanced AI technologies by companies without having to compromise network performance or security governance.
