Tom Foottit

Director of Products

Provider Connectivity Assurance

As Director of Products for Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance (formerly Accedian Skylight), Tom is responsible for product strategy, applying extensive knowledge of telecom industry software development to solve real-world problems in the software-defined network (SDN), cloud, and enterprise IT spaces. Tom has more than two decades of product line management, systems engineering and R&D experience, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Carleton University.

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Tom Foottit

Five Ways Network Assurance Enables Critical AI Infrastructure

Is your network ready for AI traffic? Discover five ways proactive network assurance can optimize AI workloads—without slowing down everything else.

December 17, 2025 • 5 min read

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Tom Foottit

Achieving Reliable AI Models for Network Performance Assurance

Data accuracy, granularity, and diversity are critical for training AI models to assure/predict issues with real-time networks; detect critical events; and enable accurate, closed-loop feedback toward achieving an autonomous network.

February 6, 2025 • 3 min read

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