The three new models give customers several options for configurations and throughput capacity, but they all share support for the same deep buffers, security, and optics for AI network fabric buildouts, Francis said.
In addition to the new hardware, HPE added new AI support, including a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, to the Juniper Routing Director to help customers build, configure, and optimize networks, Francis said. The Routing Director is the vendor’s routing automation and traffic engineering platform.
Juniper Routing Director provides structured, real-time context from across the WAN, HPE says, and it enables agentic AI, including a MCP server, to expose data and actions in a model-friendly way. “The result? With natural language, an AI assistant can go beyond analysis—it can act (with the right permissions) to orchestrate changes, validate configurations, run active tests, optimize services, and even help manage security patch workflows,” HPE wrote in a blog post about the enhancement.
