He United States Department of Justice has given HPE green light to Buy Juniper Networksfor which it will pay around 14,000 million dollars. Of course, you will have to make some concessions to have full authorization.
Among other things, you will have to sell the division dedicated to Wi -Fi Instant On within 180 days, in addition to taking measures to offer third parties the AI OPS Source Code license for Mist, by Juniper. Instant ON markets a Wi -Fi connectivity kit for business divisions and companies. Ai OPS for Mist is a tool that applies to different network management tasks.
HPE seems to have fostered the news, and in a statement in which he accepts the agreement, his CEO and President, Antonio Nerihas promised customers that with the operation they will get «More competition in the global network market«, In addition to communicating to shareholders that they can expect that thanks to the HPE agreement they accelerate their growth in different areas: data centers for AI, service providers and cloud.
According to various projections, the combination of Juniper and HPE businesses can cause this year to enter 10,000 million dollars in an area to which the company calls Edge Intelligent, making HPE the third importance in importance of the data centers market. It would be an important leap for her, since in fiscal year 2024 of the company, this division had revenues of 4.5 billion dollars, with an year -on -year drop of 852 million dollars.
HPE announced his purchase plans for Juniper a year and a half ago, in January 2024. Since then he has had to face several obstacles, which seems that little by little they begin to be saved, although they have the authorization of the United Kingdom for almost a year. Of course, it will still spend time before you can continue with the necessary steps to close the operation. Once you meet the demands raised by the Department of Justice, it will continue with the purchase process.
The next steps to take then will be, probably, the announcement of a new directive in charge of Juniper, the elimination of staff positions duplicated by the merger through a round of layoffs, and the publication of more details about the combination of technologies and product ranges.
