TLDR: Mplify, a global alliance, has released a market brief highlighting Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) as the foundational element for the emerging era of Agentic AI. Unveiled at its Global NaaS Event (GNE 2025), the brief emphasizes that as AI evolves from generative to agentic intelligence, networks must transform into automated, secure, and federated supply chains to support the projected multi-trillion-dollar AI infrastructure buildout.
Mplify, formerly known as MEF, a prominent global alliance of network, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise organizations, has unveiled a significant market brief at its Global NaaS Event (GNE 2025). The brief, titled “NaaS: The Automated Network Supply Chain for Agentic AI,” positions Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) as the indispensable foundation for the rapidly advancing era of Agentic AI. The announcement, made on November 13, 2025, underscores a critical shift in the digital economy.
According to Mplify, AI systems are transitioning from generative intelligence, which focuses on single-response transactions, to agentic intelligence, characterized by continuous reasoning and distributed operations. This evolution necessitates a fundamental transformation in how networks are conceived, built, and operated. Pascal Menezes, CTO of Mplify, emphasized the urgency of this shift, stating, “If you’re a provider and not enabling NaaS, you risk being left behind in the AI era. Agentic AI is redefining how networks are built and operated. We’re moving into a phase where connectivity, compute, and intelligence must operate as one system. This demands infrastructure that can think and act in real time—automated, secure, and federated across networks. NaaS is the framework that makes it possible.”
The market brief highlights a monumental opportunity for service and technology providers to redefine their role within the burgeoning AI economy. McKinsey projects a staggering $6.7 trillion in data center investment by 2030, with $5.2 trillion specifically earmarked for AI-ready capacity. This massive investment underscores the need for a robust and adaptable network architecture capable of supporting the continuous and distributed reasoning flows of agentic AI across various domains.
Key takeaways from Mplify’s market brief include:
AI Evolution: The shift from generative AI’s single-response transactions to agentic AI’s continuous reasoning will drive exponential inference growth.
Infrastructure Boom: This shift is fueling a multi-trillion-dollar global AI infrastructure buildout.
Network Transformation: Networks are evolving from mere utilities into foundational coordination layers, essential for enabling reasoning flows across distributed environments.
Standardization and Certification: The brief stresses the critical importance of certification and standardized Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs. These are vital for achieving interoperability among providers and for identifying genuine strategic AI infrastructure partners.
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Mplify’s GNE 2025, held from November 10–14, 2025, in Dallas, Texas, serves as a platform to demonstrate how the alliance’s standardized assets are being implemented to construct the network fabric required for the AI era. The event convenes industry leaders to address the complex requirements of agentic AI, including cross-network automation, consistent security protocols, and seamless interoperability through open APIs. The alliance and its members are actively expanding NaaS implementations to support these AI-driven demands, ensuring that connectivity becomes an amplifier for intelligence rather than a bottleneck.
