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Netskope Launches NewEdge AI Fast Path

Netskope Japan, a leading player in security and network technology for the cloud and AI era, has unveiled the "NewEdge AI Fast Path". This newest offering is designed to optimize network pathways to critical AI destinations across all types of cloud environments—public, private, and neo-cloud. The deployment of this service has already commenced for existing Netskope clients, aiming to enhance the user experience involved with AI applications by reducing delays, costs, and improving performance while ensuring resilience and security.

In the recent survey, it became clear that as enterprises delve deeper into the AI era, the demand for performance, resilience, and security is skyrocketing. However, only 18% of IT infrastructure and operations leaders feel confident that they can address these mounting demands within their current framework and budgets. As companies strive to increase their utilization of AI, the reliance on outdated security tools and inadequate network infrastructure forces them into a situation where they have to compromise either security or user experience. This leads to a variety of issues—including delaying AI implementations or avoiding necessary security inspections of AI traffic due to security concerns. Moreover, there is a risk that users may bypass essential security controls just to avoid performance degradation.

Fortunately, with Netskope, businesses no longer need to compromise between security and user experience. The backbone supporting this capability is the carrier-grade private cloud known as Netskope NewEdge. This infrastructure delivers security, networking, analytics, and AI services. The AI Fast Path is a suite of features included in NewEdge that ensures even the most demanding AI applications perform excellently and efficiently. The specific advantages offered by AI Fast Path include:

• - Improved Response Time: Reduced inference time from prompts to responses minimizes the initial response generation time for interactive AI (Time to First Token: TTFT).
• - Optimization of Agent-based AI: Accelerates complex multi-prompt agent workflows using high-speed processing necessary for rapid and iterative AI subtasks.
• - Large Language Model Performance Enhancements: Boosts the performance of large language models (LLMs) when accessing massive distributed data, particularly through MCP gateways.
• - Rapid RAG: Accelerates connections between LLMs and external data sources, enabling real-time output generation with high-quality search expansion generation (RAG).

Yuichi Konda, Vice President and Country Manager at Netskope Japan, emphasized the importance of evolving alongside AI without sacrificing security or performance. He stated, "As organizations adapt to the pace of AI, they mustn't compromise on security or performance. Netskope is recognized as a market leader for delivering value to nearly all users along the communication pathways while ensuring robust security. Optimizing the essential AI user experience for businesses is part of this mission. We take pride in assisting our clients in meeting the speed of AI without increasing unnecessary risks."

Continuous Expansion of Netskope NewEdge

Netskope differentiates itself from other vendors that depend on public cloud and third-party providers by directly managing its own data center infrastructure, providing full compute capabilities and security services at each location. The effectiveness of availability, traffic processing capability, and security is guaranteed through industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs). Netskope’s NewEdge sets modern standards in security and networking, meeting global and client-essential demands for coverage, end-to-end performance, and resilience. The architecture of NewEdge is also designed to be scalable, providing the capability for rapid data center additions and capacity increases to ensure sustained high performance of Netskope One platform services.

AI Fast Path has now joined Netskope's expanding NewEdge global network, which boasts industry-leading network capabilities:

• - Deployment of Over 120 Data Centers Worldwide: Including four locations in Japan, Netskope has over 120 data centers in more than 80 regions globally. Each location delivers full compute capabilities and a comprehensive SASE stack to facilitate accelerated traffic inflow to NewEdge for users, sites, and devices while utilizing Netskope's services, including SSE, SASE, and AI security.
• - Direct Connectivity with Major AI Providers: NewEdge now features over 12,000 network connection points—having added more than 1,000 in the past year—ensuring extensive peering and interconnection with over 750 unique autonomous system numbers (ASNs). This connectivity allows for rapid, direct routes to leading AI service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI while eliminating reliance on transit providers or excessive traffic hops.
• - Dynamic Route Optimization Multiple Times Daily: Utilizing innovative technology like NewEdge Route Control, extensive network and application performance monitoring feeds into valuable telemetry data. Route Control carries out tens of thousands of route changes daily to identify the fastest paths to AI destinations, enhancing resilience by sidestepping internet congestion or ISP connectivity issues.

For a comprehensive understanding of how Netskope balances security and performance in the AI era, please visit Netskope.com for details on the Netskope NewEdge Network. The AI Fast Path has already begun deployment for current Netskope customers. For more information, please contact via website or your respective sales representatives.