The Agent Service Bus: The Most Important Infrastructure Nobody Is Building
Everyone is talking about AI models and agent platforms. Almost nobody is talking about the infrastructure that makes agents actually work together. In this second article of Arion Research's "Future Enterprise" series, we examine the Agent Service Bus, the most strategically important layer in the enterprise AI stack and the one getting the least attention. We break down the five functions it must perform, assess where current protocols (A2A, MCP) fall short, and explore who will build the missing pieces.
The Agentic Service Bus: A New Architecture for Inter-Agent Communication
As enterprises deploy more AI agents across their operations, a critical infrastructure challenge is emerging: how should these agents communicate with each other? The answer may reshape enterprise architecture as profoundly as the original service bus did two decades ago.