Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Juniper Networks in a deal valued at about $13 billion. The deal could be announced as early as this week, according to sources.
The acquisition would help bolster HPE’s artificial intelligence (AI) offerings, according to a WSJ report. Juniper’s high-performance network and service offerings include routing, switching, Wi-Fi, network security, AI-enabled enterprise networking operations (AIOps), and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies.
The deal would be HPE’s largest since becoming a standalone company and one of the biggest potential acquisitions since Autonomy in 2011 and EDS in 2008.