By Sander Almekinders
Publication Date: 2026-02-24 14:00:00
The network must keep up to date to cope with all the power of AI that is being deployed. HPE wants to optimally connect data centers with the new Juniper PTX12000 routers. The combination of chassis, line cards and Juniper Express 5 ASIC in the new models should result in the most compact ultra-high-density DCI routers currently available.
Service providers must ride the AI wave. This applies to computing, but certainly also to the network. If one part of the stack becomes faster and more powerful, the other can’t be left behind. In fact, the network is playing an increasingly important role. This is especially true now that scaling across workloads requires achieving huge throughputs across data centers.
“Performance is no longer about computing, it’s about networking,” says Julius Francis, director of product strategy and marketing at HPE, bluntly. “We need to rethink it and rewrite it,” he puts it more poetically later in our conversation…
