HPE Juniper Networking Routing2x Program

Maintaining outdated routing infrastructure guarantees high OpEx, unacceptable downtime, and critical security vulnerabilities. The cost of standing still is too high. The HPE Routing2x Program is designed to accelerate your migration to an AI-native, self-driving WAN, providing powerful incentives to purchase and deploy your new network quickly and safely. Move to HPE Juniper Networking today to reduce energy, scale seamlessly, and leave behind the disruptive costs of legacy WAN environments.
  • 82%

    Lower five-year cumulative operational expense

  • 10,000+

    Proven WAN architecture already deployed with digital transformation leaders

  • 77%

    Lower power consumption

  • 64%

    More space efficiency than competition

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Report: The strategic and economic value of adopting HPE Juniper Networking

This white paper evaluates the economic and environmental benefits of next generation HPE Juniper Networking platforms across four representative networking use cases, including greenfield AI data center and DCI deployments as well as modernization of legacy regional and large enterprise WAN environments. The analysis compares HPE

AI-native routing and switching platforms against representative competitive alternatives using a five-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model that includes hardware and software expenses, power, cooling, space utilization, and annual maintenance costs. Read the report to learn how HPE Juniper Networking offers a simple solution for increasingly complex digital transformations.

Read the ACG TCO report

Incentive program details

Does it feel like you're always ripping and replacing? Is your TCO tanking your bottom line? You might be feeling the age of your legacy WAN. The good news: There's never been a better time to upgrade.

Transition to a modern WAN effortlessly—take advantage of a free automation license, seamless integration support, and robust service credits. The HPE Juniper Networking Routing2x Program offers twice the performance and twice the savings.These%20claims%20are%20based%20on%20the%20example%20of%20a%20comparison%20of%20HPE%20Networking%20MX304%20v.%20Cisco%20ASR9902%20running%20in%20a%20full%20configuration.%20Users%20should%20conduct%20their%20own%20research%20and%20seek%20professional%20advice%20from%20HPE%20Networking%20or%20Partner%20experts%20to%20establish%20the%20specific%20benefits%20for%20their%20application.

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Transform with ease

  • Feature parity assessment
  • Seamless integration into existing infrastructure

Automate for free

  • Three free years of HPE Networking Routing Director
  • Or one-year free trial of HPE Networking Routing Assurance and access to full benefit of HPE Juniper Networking Support InsightsHPE%20Networking%20Support%20Insights%20solution%20must%20be%20activated%20for%201st%20year%20of%20HPE%20Networking%20Care%20Support.

Upgrade with confidence

  • Receive free Flexible Service Credits that you can use towards migration services and trainingFree%20services%20value%20is%20limited%20to%20the%20amount%20of%20free%20Flexible%20Services%20Credit%20value%20included%20with%20the%20HPE%20Juniper%20quote.%20An%20additional%20fee%20may%20be%20required%20if%20the%20credit%20value%20is%20not%20sufficient%20to%20cover%20the%20full%20services%20price.
  • First year of HPE  Networking Care Support is freeHPE%20Networking%20Support%20Insights%20solution%20must%20be%20activated%20for%201st%20year%20of%20HPE%20Networking%20Care%20Support.
  • HPE Financial Services offers financing and IT Lifecycle Services to help you retire assets responsibly

Eligible products

  • ACX7000
  • MX10000/MX204/MX304/MX301
  • PTX10000
  • HPE Juniper Networking-qualified optics
  • HPE Networking Routing Director (formerly Juniper Routing Director) 
  • HPE Networking Routing Assurance (formerly Juniper Routing Assurance)

Compare HPE Juniper Networking and Cisco routing solutions

HPE Juniper Networking

Cisco legacy routers

Cisco 8000 Series

Longevity and a roadmap to 800GE
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  • 12+ year platform longevity with easy scale up/in options and next-gen platforms built for similar longevity and scale.
  • Express 5 generation PTX card with true 36 X 800G ports. All Juniper platforms are 800GE ready.
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  • Legacy platform constraints and recurring end-of-life transitions may require substantial hardware refreshes.
  • Port-density limitations can make economical scaling to native, high-density 800GE core requirements more challenging.
  • These platforms do not support orthogonal chassis architecture.
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  • Cisco provides an enterprise-class core architecture with a roadmap for 400GE and 800GE deployments; however, scaling is closely aligned with specific proprietary hardware building blocks.

Silicon strategy
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  • Trio: Flexible logical scale and a true "sea of generic processors" design
  • Express: Core throughput
  • Merchant: Blended performance
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  • A diverse mix of earlier-generation merchant silicon and proprietary network processors can result in variations in feature capabilities across platforms.
  • Current platforms remain dependent on their existing ASIC generations, with limited evidence of further hardware innovation in the legacy portfolio.
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  • Cisco is standardizing its unified Cisco Silicon One architecture, although third-party testing has reported performance limitations in selected use cases.
  • A common silicon architecture is applied across a broad range of deployment scenarios, which may limit use-case-specific optimization.

Zero Trust Security
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  • Offers encryption without performance penalties—any capacity, any workload.
  • Automatically safeguards against DDoS attacks with enabled routers for 100GB to 40TB at the edge.
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  • Security functions may rely on additional service modules or separate licenses, increasing deployment and operational complexity.
  • Although security capabilities are available, aging hardware can increase exposure to end-of-support software and hardware constraints.
  • Cisco has published multiple end-of-life notices across the ASR portfolio.
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  • The Cisco 8000 portfolio supports capabilities such as MACsec, IPsec on applicable platforms, DDoS Edge Protection, and IOS XR security features; however, the platform and operating system require ongoing attention to published security advisories and remediation.

 

 

Proven performance
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  • Best-of-breed WAN, Campus, and AI DC optimize CapEx and OpEx. Our Silicon strategy supports proven network solutions preferred by 1300+ digital transformation leaders in all use cases.
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  • Legacy platforms can serve traditional branch and enterprise WAN requirements but may encounter scalability constraints in high-density data-center core and AI-oriented traffic environments.
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  • Cisco delivers high-performance routing with deep-buffer and High Bandwidth Memory designs, but deployment and upgrade decisions remain closely tied to the Cisco ecosystem lifecycle.
  • For certain edge requirements, limitations include FIB scale, consistency of IPv4 and IPv6 forwarding performance, and approximately 56,000 virtual output queues.

Sustainable by design
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  • ACX: Up to 77% lower power consumption than competitors and 64% more space-efficient than Cisco platforms.
  • MX10K: Up to 15% more power efficient than competitors
  • PTX 10K platforms: 59% greater power efficiency than previous generations line cards.
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  • Older platforms typically consume more power per gigabit and require a larger physical footprint, potentially increasing long-term operating costs.
  • End-of-life and end-of-support platforms can carry higher maintenance costs, carbon impact, and electronic-waste implications.
  • The ASR 9000 portfolio shows limited new hardware investment relative to newer routing platforms.
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  • Cisco positions the 8000 Series as power efficient and publishes typical platform power data; however, comparative claims indicate that Silicon One may deliver lower power and capacity efficiency than HPE Juniper Trio and Express ASICs in selected configurations.

Ease of automation
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  • Intent-based automation allows end-to-end connectivity to be easily provisioned. Juniper’s award-winning Day 2 AIOps enable continual AI-assisted optimization.
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  • Multiple earlier-generation automation tools may require additional professional services to support Day 0 through Day 2 operations.
  • Variations across legacy hardware and software generations can increase operational complexity.
  • Historically command-line-centric workflows can require greater manual effort and may increase the risk of configuration errors.
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  • Cisco Crosswork and IOS XR provide automation, telemetry, assurance, and closed-loop capabilities; however, some automation use cases may require additional integration and customization, potentially extending time to value.
  • IOS XR offers programmatic configuration and API capabilities, but teams may face a steeper learning curve and must navigate complex licensing tiers.

 

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