Graphiant Blogs

Salt Typhoon: Forgotten But Not Gone

Salt Typhoon faded from public attention, but the core issue remains. This article shows how unpatched legacy devices, weak credentials, poor telemetry, and outdated encryption keep telecom networks exposed, and how Graphiant Data Assurance helps reduce exposure, protect data in transit, and verify policy enforcement.

Treat Your AI Agents Like Interns, Not Code

AI agents move fast, but they lack judgment. This article argues for a better mental model: treat agents like interns. Use them for draft work and iteration, then add least-privilege access, safe environments, approvals, logging, and monitoring.

The AI Era is Revealing a Foundational Truth About Data Governance

AI moves your data faster than old firewalls and checklists. Learn why visibility and policy control for data in motion is the starting point for AI governance, and how Graphiant Data Assurance embeds those controls in the network.

Coast to Coast - From Expo to HQ

A trip from ITEXPO in Fort Lauderdale to Graphiant HQ in San Jose highlights a widening split in the workforce: teams using AI as a daily instrument, and teams stuck in old patterns. The takeaway: governance plus modern network infrastructure decides who moves faster.

From Overbuilt Data Centers to Understandable Data Flows: Reframing AI Infrastructure ROI

Data center ROI is often measured through facilities metrics, not operational outcomes. Real value emerges from how data moves across environments. A network-first approach links visibility, policy, and performance to measurable infrastructure returns.

Why Most AI Infrastructure Investments Miss the Network Reality

Enterprise infrastructure challenges are often blamed on limited capacity, but the real issue is limited visibility into how data moves across environments. When flows, policies, and performance are clearly understood, expansion becomes deliberate instead of reactive.

Why AI-Ready Infrastructure Has Nothing to Do with LLMs

AI initiatives rarely fail because of weak models. They fail because infrastructure cannot coordinate data, enforce policy, or maintain performance at scale. This blog reframes AI-ready infrastructure as a networking and data assurance discipline, not a model deployment milestone.

Part 1: The 100 Millisecond Problem - How Amazon’s Internal Crisis Sparked a Revolution

Milliseconds directly impact revenue in distributed systems. Khalid Raza reflects on how Amazon’s latency crisis reshaped global infrastructure, revealing why network architecture determines performance, scale, and competitive advantage.

AI Systems Don’t Fail at Intelligence - They Fail at Coordination

Enterprise AI failures are often blamed on weak models, but the real issue is coordination. This blog explains how gaps in data movement, visibility, and infrastructure control undermine AI reliability at scale.

Data Security & Governance in the AI Era

AI changes how data moves across clouds, partners, and geographies, and it exposes gaps in traditional security and governance controls. In this blog, Graphiant’s CSO explains why the network is the right place to enforce encryption, visibility, and policy so you can run AI securely and stay compliant.

Building an AI-Ready Network: Graphiant’s AI Strategy for the Future of Intelligent Connectivity

Vinay Prabhu outlines an AI-ready network built on three pillars: Data Exchange for secure sharing, Data Assurance for visibility and audit, and Gina AI for operational lift. See how encrypted, stateless design and path verification turn claims into evidence.

How Gina AI Empowers Smarter, Faster Decision-Making

Gina AI gives your network team faster answers and clearer actions. Run daily standups, rank issues, visualize alerts, and prove compliance, all built on Graphiant’s encrypted, stateless fabric with policy-aware path verification.

Meet Gina AI: Your New AI-Powered Network Assistant for Daily Standups and Operational Insights

Gina AI gives your team fast answers without more dashboards. Run daily standups, rank alerts, trace data paths, and prove compliance. Built on Graphiant’s encrypted, stateless network with SLA-backed middle mile and Data Assurance controls.

Graphiant and The Future of Connectivity: My Vision as CEO of Graphiant

Graphiant’s new CEO, Ali Shaikh, sets a clear agenda for the next phase of growth. The focus is simple. Deliver intelligent, sovereign, and secure connectivity at global scale. Accelerate platform adoption, deepen key partnerships, and advance policy-driven, AI-ready networking so your business moves faster with confidence.

Networking for Agentic AI: Why Traditional Architectures Will Break and How Graphiant Solves It

Agentic AI stresses NAT, VPN, and MPLS. See how a stateless, segment-routed core gives network engineers secure, policy-driven connectivity for LLMs, custom agents, and real-world workloads.

Unwavering Uptime: How Graphiant's Global Health Dashboard Powers Your Network

Network uptime and reliability demand complete visibility. Graphiant’s Global Health Dashboard delivers real-time insights, proactive alerts, and SLA tracking, all powered by a resilient, secure backbone built for cloud-first enterprises.

How Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) Helps Your Business Sidestep Hardware Tariffs

Tariffs are driving up hardware costs and squeezing IT budgets. Network-as-a-Service offers a smarter path: predictable costs, built-in security, and instant scalability. Learn how Graphiant makes your network tariff-proof.

Agentic AI and the Evolution of Networking

Agentic AI changes how enterprises connect and operate. Stateless networking delivers the control, security, and performance needed for real-time data movement and business success.

Why Trade Policies Make Stateless Networking Essential

Tariffs are inflating the cost of routers, firewalls, and switches. Stateless networking reduces reliance on tariff-exposed hardware by shifting intelligence into software. The result is predictable costs, faster deployments, and resilient operations for CFOs and CTOs.

The End of Cloud Egress Fees: Go Device-Free and Automate Your Network with Graphiant NaaS

Graphiant NaaS gives partners fast multi-cloud network automation through self-service networking. Stand up gateways across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle, avoid cloud egress fees, and enforce L4 to L7 Data Assurance.

The Internet For AI

Artificial intelligence is redefining network requirements. Traditional infrastructure cannot keep up with AI workloads that need low latency, security, and real-time data processing. This blog explains the evolution toward an Internet for AI, key design principles, how telecom companies can adapt existing infrastructure, and why Saudi Arabia is positioned as a regional AI hub.

How to Avoid Network Hardware Tariffs in 2025, Without Delaying Projects

Tariff hikes of up to 25 % on imported networking gear are rewriting 2025 IT budgets. This post dissects the ripple effects (budget overruns, deployment delays, stalled roadmaps) and shares three proven tactics, including Graphiant’s Zero Tariff Edge Node, to keep projects on track.

The New Infrastructure for AI Agents: Why Config Automation Alone Isn’t the Answer

Cisco’s Deep Network Model automates tunnels and routes, but leans on MPLS and SD-WAN that buckle under billions of ephemeral AI agents. Discover why firms now need a sovereign, self-service, zero-trust fabric built for real-time, policy-rich AI connectivity.

AI Driven Network Security: Strategies for a Safer Digital Landscape

Discover why traditional firewalls aren’t enough and how a modern, AI-driven Defense-in-Depth strategy (anchored in Zero Trust, smart routing, and cloud-based scale) closes today’s sprawling attack surface. This quick read distills the essentials and shows how Graphiant’s stateless architecture streamlines security for next-generation threats.

Think Beyond Cisco: How Graphiant’s Stateless Core and Data Assurance Redefine Networking for AI

Enterprises racing toward AI are being sold faster routers, yet speed alone can’t handle dynamic agent traffic. Discover why Graphiant’s stateless, policy-driven fabric with built-in, quantum-safe data assurance delivers the agility Cisco misses.

How U.S. Tariffs Are Forcing a Rethink of 2025 Network Spending

New U.S. tariffs are driving network hardware prices up and turning CapEx refreshes into budget landmines. Learn why forward-looking IT teams are shifting to service-based networking and how Graphiant’s Zero Tariff Edge Node removes tariff exposure and hardware costs.

Creating Frameworks for AI to Build Networks

Traditional tunnels can’t keep up with AI-scale data. Graphiant introduces a stateless-core NaaS that embeds metadata in every packet to deliver any-to-any, encrypted connectivity, GPU-ready bandwidth, and CI/CD-friendly APIs. Discover how self-remediating paths cut backbone costs by up to 67 %.

U.S. Tariffs Are Driving Up IT Hardware Costs - Here’s How to Stay Ahead

New 2025 tariffs could significantly inflate IT hardware costs, especially for network infrastructure. Find out how Graphiant helps IT teams bypass delays and budget overruns with a smart subscription model and free, pre-imported edge hardware.

Building Sovereign AI Pipelines: The Critical Role of Network Path Control

Discover why sovereign AI pipelines start with the network. This deep-dive shows how Graphiant’s Network-as-a-Service uses path-level routing and Data Assurance to keep training and inference data inside approved borders, delivering visibility, compliance, and competitive speed.

Updated Document Center

Graphiant has rebuilt its Document Center from the ground up. AI-powered search, topic-driven navigation, ungated technical guides, and bite-sized videos let engineers, architects, and executives master Graphiant at their own pace without friction.

Mastering Your IT Budget: Essential Tips for Effective Management

Tariffs inflate IT costs and disrupt budgets. Use detailed planning, proactive asset management, and flexible, hardware-agnostic networks like Graphiant to offset increased costs and uncertainty

Securing the Sovereign AI Future: How Graphiant's Data Assurance Powers Data Control

Sovereign AI needs sovereign data. As AI models grow and laws tighten, Graphiant’s Data Assurance gives enterprises and governments real-time visibility and control over data in motion, enabling compliance, privacy, and trust at a global scale.

Graphiant Plants Its Flag in Riyadh: $19 Million Boost Powers AI-Ready Connectivity Across Saudi Arabia

Graphiant’s $19 M Series B extension – co-led by Tali Ventures and Wa’ed Ventures – brings its cloud-native Network-as-a-Service platform to Saudi Arabia. Discover why AI-ready connectivity is central to the Kingdom’s digital-infrastructure ambitions.

Ali Shaikh: I Told Congress How to Regain Real-Time Data Control

On April 30, 2025, Ali Shaikh testified before the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Communications & Technology Subcommittee and submitted a statement for the record on securing U.S. communications infrastructure. He laid out a simple case: if you can’t see and govern data movement in real time, you can’t secure networks or prove compliance. He argues that the U.S. should accelerate real-time oversight, advanced traffic profiling, and enforceable data sovereignty.

HIPAA’s New Cybersecurity Overhaul: How Graphiant’s Data Assurance Exceeds Healthcare Network Requirements

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing enhanced HIPAA security standards focused on network segmentation, while Graphiant offers a next-gen Data Assurance platform to exceed these requirements and proactively protect ePHI.

Navigating the NaaS Landscape: The Graphiant Way

Graphiant is revolutionizing Network as a Service (NaaS) by providing a comprehensive, secure, and cost-efficient platform that meets the evolving needs of modern enterprises.

Cloudifying Telecom

Troubleshooting Made Easy

Graphiant offers a proactive approach to enterprise network management, focusing on real-time monitoring and scalable architecture to address complex troubleshooting challenges.

What Three Mile Island Taught Me About Managing a Massive Global Network

Graphiant enhances network monitoring by providing real-time metrics and contextual alerts, improving response times and resource management.

Reviving the Business Internet: A Roadmap to Restoration

The business internet is currently broken due to performance, security, and scalability issues, necessitating a shift towards a more accessible and decentralized network model.

3 Takeaways from ONUG Spring 2023 written by Khalid Raza, the ‘Father’ of SD-WAN

The ONUG Spring 2023 highlighted the importance of open forums in tackling networking issues and the need for businesses to adapt to an as-a-Service model due to legacy systems' challenges with data demands.

Why Graphiant?

Khalid, founder of Graphiant and innovator of SD-WAN at Viptela, emphasizes vision, leadership, and teamwork in creating a groundbreaking Network-as-a-Service solution while fostering an inclusive culture despite challenges.

Simplifying Complex Networks with Graphiant’s Network Edge Service

The Intel webinar emphasized the need for simplified networking solutions, introducing the Graphiant Network Edge as a private network to enhance connectivity to cloud resources and streamline enterprise networking.

Launch Day

The speaker discusses their journey with Viptela in establishing the SD-WAN market and the subsequent founding of Graphiant to meet evolving network needs.

How did we go from SD-WAN to SASE to SSE?

The Graphiant Network Edge offers a solution that combines the reliable security of MPLS with the cost efficiencies of SD-WAN amidst evolving network security challenges.

SD-WAN ROI Claims are not Real

Navigating the NaaS Landscape: The Graphiant Way