Envoy: A future-ready foundation for agentic AI networking

In today’s agentic AI environments, the network has a new set of responsibilities. In a traditional application stack, the network mainly moves requests between services. But as discussed in a recent white paper, Cloud Infrastructure in the Agent-Native Era , in an agentic system the network sits in the middle of model calls, tool invocations, agent-to-agent interactions, and policy decisions that can shape what an agent is allowed to do.