HPE disrupts networking industry with expanded AI-native portfolio; reimagines future of IT operations with self-drivingnetworks strategy

HPE moves rapidly following close of Juniper acquisition by introducing consistent AIOps

features across HPE Aruba Networking and HPE Juniper Networking platforms and

greater observability across compute, storage, networking, and cloud

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – December 4, 2025 – HPE Discover Barcelona 2025 – HPE (NYSE: HPE)

today accelerated its AI infrastructure leadership with an expansion of its secure, AI-native networking

portfolio that leverages HPE Aruba Networking and HPE Juniper Networking for self-driving operations

to maximize performance and scale for AI workloads. Today’s portfolio expansion marks a key

milestone in the integration of Juniper Networks with HPE, taking place only five months after closing

the Juniper acquisition.

This expansion includes new AIOps capabilities and common hardware that deliver a consistent, self-

driving experience across both HPE Aruba Networking Central and HPE Juniper Networking Mist

operations platforms. Coupled with updates to HPE OpsRamp Software and new HPE Juniper

Networking switching and routing introductions, HPE expands the role of the network as the critical

foundation enabling AI and cloud performance, while simplifying IT operations across hybrid

environments using agentic AI compatible with GreenLake Intelligence.

“In the era of AI, customers need networks that are purpose-built with AI and for AI to handle the rapid

growth of connected devices, complex environments, and increasing security threats,” said Rami

Rahim, executive vice president, president and general manager, Networking, HPE. “By delivering

autonomous, high-performing networks, HPE is poised to disrupt the networking industry with future-

ready solutions that redefine user experiences and provide robust, secure connectivity across all

environments.”

HPE advances self-driving networks with unified AIOps across HPE Aruba Networking and HPE

Juniper Networking

In a short period of time, HPE has demonstrated its ability to bring together the best of HPE Aruba

Networking Central and HPE Juniper Networking Mist, leveraging a common agentic AI and

microservices framework to provide investment protection, while integrating key AI for networks

features for a consistent experience and introducing new AI for network capabilities across both

domains:

• HPE Juniper Networking Mist Large Experience Model (LEM), which uses billions of data points

from apps such as Zoom and Teams, combined with synthetic data from digital twins to rapidly

detect, fix, and predict video issues, will now be available in HPE Aruba Networking Central.

• HPE Aruba Networking’s Agentic Mesh technology will be available for Mist, enhancing anomaly

detection and root-cause analysis with advanced reasoning and autonomous or assistive

actions.

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• Mist will adopt the organizational insight and global NOC views from HPE Aruba Networking

Central, delivering a unified user experience across both platforms.

• New WiFi-7 access point models that work across HPE Aruba Networking Central and HPE

Juniper Networking Mist, ensuring buyer protection.

HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises 3.0 now provides customers with powerful insights and

automation in a secure, on-premises environment by incorporating advanced generative and

traditional AIOps capabilities, actionable AI alerts, proactive remediation, intelligent client insights, and

simplified documentation search – all managed through a redesigned user interface.

HPE expands networks for AI portfolio with first OEM switch to leverage Broadcom Tomahawk 6

silicon

High-performance networking is critical for running AI workloads, with computing for AI inferencing

moving to the edge. This shift is driven by latency, privacy, and economics, and creates a need for high

performing switches and routers. To address this growing segment of performance-hungry,

accelerated compute, HPE is introducing:

● The HPE Juniper Networking QFX5250 switch, which connects GPUs within data centers with

the world’s highest performance Ultra Ethernet Transport-ready switch. Built on Broadcom

Tomahawk 6 silicon, with 102.4Tbps bandwidth, the QFX5250 combines HPE Juniper

Networking’s Junos innovation, HPE’s liquid cooling leadership, and AIOps intelligence to

deliver performance, power-efficiency, and simplified operations for next-generation AI

infrastructure.

● The HPE Juniper Networking MX301 multiservice edge router brings AI inferencing closer to

the source of data generation, and addresses the need for high-performance edge routing. This

compact 1RU router delivers 1.6 Tbps performance and 400G connectivity across inference,

multiservice, metro, mobile backhaul, and enterprise routing environments.

HPE announces extensions of partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD with new networking innovations

Also prior to HPE Discover Barcelona 2025, HPE unveiled new high-performance networking solutions

with NVIDIA and AMD to accelerate AI deployments, including:

• HPE’s solutions for AI factories have been extended to include HPE Juniper Networking edge

on-ramp and long haul data center interconnect (DCI). This extension leverages the HPE

Juniper Networks MX and PTX high-speed routing platforms to enable high-scale, secure and

low latency connections from users, devices, and agents to AI factories and connections

between clusters deployed across longer distances or across multiple clouds. These new

capabilities complement HPE’s AI factory networking solutions, including the NVIDIA Spectrum-

X Ethernet networking platform and NVIDIA BlueField-3 data processing units (DPUs). Together

they provide customers with improved workload experiences across various production

scenarios.

● AMD “Helios” AI rack-scale architecture, featuring industry-first scale-up Ethernet

networking. The solution is a single turnkey rack capable of a trillion parameter AI training and

high-volume inferencing, delivering 260 TB/s of scale-up bandwidth and 2.9 exaflops of FP4

performance. The included, purpose-built HPE Juniper Networking scale-up switch, developed

in collaboration with Broadcom, and software are the first in the industry to supercharge AI

training and inference performance using standards-based Ethernet.

HPE innovations in AIOps help unify IT operations and take action in a hybrid world

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HPE is advancing its hybrid cloud and Agentic AIOps strategy with advancements that showcase a

unique HPE strength: full-stack, multi-domain, multi-vendor intelligence anchored by a shared resource

model that spans hardware to public cloud. With these enhancements to HPE OpsRamp Software and

deeper integration with GreenLake, HPE now brings together telemetry from HPE Compute Ops

Management, HPE Aruba Networking Central, and HPE Juniper Networking Apstra to give IT operations

teams a single place to see, interpret, and act on everything in their environment, forming the

foundation of a true hybrid command center.

New innovations connect management and intelligence across the full stack empowering IT teams to

monitor, understand, and act instantly on their entire hybrid environment, including:

• Integration of HPE Juniper Networking’s Apstra Data Center Director and Data Center

Assurance software with OpsRamp, available through GreenLake, delivers full-stack

observability, predictive assurance, and proactive issue resolution across compute, storage,

networking, and cloud.

• New Compute Ops Management innovations—including OpsRamp integration, Compute

Copilot, and self-service root-cause analysis—to centralize visibility, speed troubleshooting, and

elevate the operator experience.

• Agentic Root Causing & Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support (limited availability) in both

GreenLake and HPE OpsRamp Software allows customers to connect AI agents from third-party

software for no-code integrations, and enriches those agents, helping GreenLake Intelligence

eliminate blind spots in dynamic environments.

• New GreenLake Intelligence capabilities provide faster insights and guided actions with new AI

agents for HPE Sustainability Insight Center, the GreenLake Wellness Dashboard, and OpsRamp

Agentic Root Causing, helping bridge data silos and enable agentic analytics across the full IT

stack.

New zero-percent financing lowers barriers to AI-native networking adoption

HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) is making it easier for organizations to modernize to AI-native

networking with two new offers. HPEFS is providing 0% financing for customers purchasing networking

AIOps software including HPE Juniper Networking Mist via term-based licensing. HPEFS is also offering

a special financing program that provides the equivalent of 10% cash savings for customers leasing

networking that supports AI workloads including datacenter networking and enterprise routing, and

for those replacing older technology, an optional multi-OEM take out service is available, with revenue

share on resale.

Availability

• HPE Juniper Networking QFX5250 switch will be available in Q1 2026

• HPE Juniper Networking MX301 multiservice edge router will be available in December 2025

• HPE OpsRamp support and integrations timeline:

o Model Context Protocol: Available now for select customers with full availability early 2026

o Compute Ops Management: Available December 2025

o Storage manager: Available February 2026

o Apstra Data Center Director: Available Q2 2026

Related Resources:

• Blog: HPE Networking unites microservices and agentic AI to deliver self-driving networks

• Blog: Data Sovereignty Meets AI-native with HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises

• Blog: HPE Compute Ops Management with Compute Copilot & HPE OpsRamp Software

integration

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Recent HPE News:

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise closes acquisition of Juniper Networks to offer industry-leading

comprehensive, cloud-native-AI-driven portfolio

• HPE accelerates self-driving network operations with new Mist agentic AI-native innovations

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise extends innovations with new distributed services switches,

expanded wired and wireless portfolio to meet AI and high-performance computing demands

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and expertise advance the way people live and work. We empower our customers across industries to

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