MCP: The Key To AI-Ready Application Delivery
F5, Monday, January 26th, 2026
Modern applications are evolving quickly. AI-powered components embedded directly into the user experience complicate what used to be a predictable flow of web and API traffic.
Search features that understand intent, assistants that automate workflows, recommendation engines that tailor content, and agents that can act on behalf of a user have driven both bespoke application experiences for users and complexity in traffic management for the teams who support these applications.
These capabilities are rapidly becoming standard features in mission-critical applications. And while AI may still feel like a separate domain, AI functionality predominantly runs through the same infrastructure that delivers applications today. This confluence of traffic types, accompanying such an evolution of application capabilities, requires an application delivery and security strategy that can support AI-augmented application experiences just as reliably as traditional application traffic.