Originally announced on January 9, 2024, the deal and has undergone public scrutiny ever since, with regulatory reviews in the UK, EU and the US. It was the US that proved to be the final hurdle, with the Justice Department suing to block the deal at first. At the time, the DOJ said reduced competition in the wireless market would be the biggest problem with the proposed buy. In its statement, the agency noted that HPE and Juniper are the second- and third-largest providers, respectively, of enterprise-grade WLAN solutions in the U.S. behind market leader Cisco.
But those issues were ultimately settled in June 2025, and HPE has gone on to integrate Juniper’s networking technology. Most recently, it announced a raft of new products, including HPE Juniper Networking QFX switches aimed at inferencing and scale-up architecture. It also deepened integration of its Juniper Networking data center switching and operations into its Mist AI engine and launched a unified, AI-native SASE platform.
