MCP and A2A: A Network Engineer’s Mental Model for Agentic AI Rob Barton on January 29, 2026 at 9:20 pm

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) have gained a significant industry attention over the past year. MCP first grabbed the world’s attention in dramatic fashion when it was published by Anthropic in November 2024, garnering tens of thousands of stars on GitHub within the first month. Organizations quickly saw the value of MCP […]

​[#item_full_content]  The Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) have gained a significant industry attention over the past year. MCP first grabbed the world’s attention in dramatic fashion when it was published by Anthropic in November 2024, garnering tens of thousands of stars on GitHub within the first month. Organizations quickly saw the value of MCP  Read More Cisco Blogs