On the {hardware} entrance, HPE is concentrating on the AI information middle edge with a brand new MX router and the scale-out networking supply with a brand new QFX swap. Juniper’s MX collection is its flagship routing household aimed toward carriers, large-scale enterprise information middle and WAN prospects, whereas the QFX line companies information middle prospects anchoring backbone/leaf networks in addition to top-of-rack programs.
The brand new 1U, 1.6Tbps MX301 multiservice edge router, obtainable now, is aimed toward bringing AI inferencing nearer to the supply of knowledge technology and could be positioned in metro, cellular backhaul, and enterprise routing functions, Rahim stated. It contains high-density help for 16 x 1/1025/50GbE, 10 x 100Gb and 4 x 400Gb interfaces.
“The MX301 is actually the on-ramp to offer excessive velocity, safe connections from distributed inference cluster customers, units and brokers from the sting all the best way to the AI information middle,” Rami stated. “The necessities listed here are usually round excessive efficiency, but additionally very excessive logical abilities and built-in safety.”
Within the QFX area, the brand new QFX5250 swap, obtainable in 1Q 2026, is a completely liquid-cooled field aimed toward tying collectively Nvidia Rubin and/or AMD MI400 GPUs for AI consumption throughout the info middle. It’s constructed on Broadcom Tomahawk 6 silicon and helps as much as 102.4Tbps Ethernet bandwidth, Rahim stated.
“The QFX5250 combines HPE liquid cooling expertise with Juniper networking software program (Junos) and built-in AIops intelligence to ship a high-performance, power-efficient and simplified operations for next-generation AI inference,” Rami stated.
Partnership expansions
Additionally key to HPE/Juniper’s AI networking plans are its partnerships with Nvidia and AMD. The corporate introduced its relationship with Nvidia now contains HPE Juniper edge onramp and long-haul information middle interconnect (DCI) help in its Nvidia AI Computing by HPE portfolio. This extension makes use of the MX and Junipers PTX hyperscaler routers to help high-scale, safe and low-latency connections from customers, units, and brokers to AI factories and connections between clusters deployed throughout longer distances or throughout a number of clouds, Rahim stated.
