This is 65 on the road. We are live from HPE Discover Barcelona 2025. I'm joined by my colleague Ryan. We have saved the best for the last with our live stream series. This week we are speaking with Rami Rahim that leads now the combined Juniper and HPE Aruba networking business unit. Rami, it's always so great to talk to you.
Well, so I love the unification of the AI ops taking the best of Juniper Mist and Aruba Central and it's powerful. I've known you for quite some time. You've always had this vision of the AI native network. So, what does this do? The combination of both solutions coming together to really drive the realization of a self-driving network.
A lot of our customers are asking us that question because we have two very powerful platforms today: Aruba Central and Mist. They're both leaders in the industry when it comes to AI operations, but they both have different sweet spots in terms of strength. Mist is a cloud-native platform. Aruba Central has much more of a diverse use case across virtual, private cloud, and on-prem. So the approach we're taking is pretty simple: it is to take the best of each and cross-pollinate them onto the other. In so doing, we're going to accelerate the pace of innovation across both platforms. We're going to address every deployment model from on-prem to VPC to public cloud, and we're going to essentially give all of our customers the ability to participate in this accelerated innovation irrespective of their starting point. That is not just the vision, but we put the vision into actual action by delivering the first cross-pollinated microservices that we demoed on stage this morning and yesterday, and we'll deliver in just weeks from now.
Absolutely right. We're showing that we can cross-pollinate not just the software and the microservices, but also the hardware capabilities. So by roughly the middle of next year, you'll have your first access point that will have a dual platform capability working equally well with Mist and Aruba Central. So our customers will have the peace of mind that their investments are 100% protected. The progress we've made in just a few months is pretty amazing.
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Rahim, R. (2025, December 9). Building a New Generation of Networks with HPE & Juniper - Six Five On The Road [Interview transcript]. Six Five Media. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/556148/
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Rami Rahim. "Building a New Generation of Networks with HPE & Juniper - Six Five On The Road." Six Five Media, 9 Dec. 2025. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/556148/.
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howpublished = {Interview transcript, Six Five Media. CEOInterviews.AI},
year = {2025},
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