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Mplify on Agentic AI, Network-as-a-Service, and the Future of Interoperability
Insights
- Open standards and interoperability will be essential for scaling agentic AI across networks, vendors, and ecosystems.
- AI agents, IoT devices, and intelligent services will require a global Network-as-a-Service fabric to collaborate effectively.
- The future of telecom value creation lies in ecosystem connectivity rather than isolated network automation.
At MWC 2026, Pascal Menezes of Mplify discusses why interoperability will be critical to realizing the full potential of agentic AI. Drawing parallels to the evolution of Wi-Fi standards, he explains how common APIs, shared frameworks, and open ecosystems can help organizations build and deploy AI agents that work seamlessly across vendors and platforms. The conversation explores the growing need for a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) fabric capable of connecting agents, models, IoT devices, and digital services at cloud-like speeds across global networks. Menezes argues that the next phase of telecom transformation will be driven by ecosystem collaboration, enabling enterprises to move beyond isolated automation efforts and unlock new opportunities through interconnected, AI-enabled infrastructure.
Pascal Menezes:
I remember way back when Wi-Fi first came out, everybody had their own NICs and APs. And so there was all these different items of different solutions. And then the Wi-Fi Alliance came around and the standards came around and everybody just connects, right?
Pascal Menezes:
I think it's going to be the same thing. We at Mplify are providing the standards, the APIs, the agents or the ability to build agents, the ability to build all your stuff as assets, the assets we're going to build, to have any vendor, any provider take those assets as a member. As a member you get it for free and build it. And so now it's an official standard. Just like I talked about the Wi-Fi analogy, everybody works and interconnects. So we've always been about interoperability in the ecosystem point of view, instead of let's automate inside my own network. We've been about how do we make this ecosystem interconnected and deliver cloud-like speeds, like I connect here and I can go across the world in hopefully seconds versus six months today.
Pascal Menezes:
So I think the agentic realm, the building of agents, they're going to be all kinds of peripherals from cameras and IoT devices, all interconnected, all working with models and working together collaboratively. And they need a NaaS fabric. That NaaS fabric of course can be from one provider, but it's going to be much more powerful when that NaaS fabric that's designed for AI is really connected across global partnerships, whatever partnerships they want to make. I think that's going to have tremendous value and deliver tremendous impact to their customers.
