Aviz Networks outlines recent Network Copilot office hours

Aviz Networks held a recent Office Hours session to demonstrate and discuss Network Copilot, giving IT leaders a live Q&A and a short demo on deployment, data connectors, agents, and Large Language Model (LLM) choices.

Research Overview

The session was a virtual, conversational forum focused on practical use of Network Copilot and conducted without slides or recordings to support open exchanges. Presenters prioritized live participant questions and a brief, real-world demonstration.

Leadership perspective

The presenters included Madhu Paluru, director of engineering, and Cody McCain, director of product management, who spoke to technical and product aspects of Network Copilot. Paluru outlined work related to Generative AI (GenAI) in networking and community engagement with SONiC, while McCain described experience across networking, security and container environments and its relation to NCP features.

Key Findings

Discussion topics addressed deployment and bring-up processes, role- and project-based task separation, and use of file uploads for contextual inputs via retrieval-augmented approaches. The session also compared available LLM options and covered agent choices, custom agent development and Software Development Kit (SDK) use.

Technical breakdown

Speakers explained data connector mechanics including attribute handling, normalization and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, and they outlined API-based access patterns. They highlighted prompting techniques that work with NCP and walked through a short demo illustrating a real-world workflow.

Operational impact

The live Q&A format aimed to surface operational questions from practitioners and to show how roles, permissions and projects can enable parallel tasks. Organizers provided a session summary after the event to capture the discussion and demo outcomes for attendees.

The session provided practical detail on deploying and using Network Copilot relevant to enterprise IT and security teams, and this “Blog Signals brief” is a fact-based summary of the vendor blog.