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Juniper Networks Enhances AI, HPC with AMD Collaboration

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Business Honor
17 June, 2025

Juniper Networks advances AI and HPC with AMD collaboration and high-performance networking solutions.

With its recent innovations and strategic partnerships, Juniper Networks is spearheading significant advancements in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). Juniper is positioned to become a leader in offering high-performance networking solutions tailored for these demanding applications, even as AI and HPC workloads continue to grow.

Amit Sanyal, Juniper Networks' Head of Data Center Product Marketing, spoke of the company's enthusiasm regarding its collaboration with AMD. The companies have collaborated on a jointly validated design featuring Juniper's high-performance switches combined with AMD's Pollara Network Interface Cards (NIC), so that AI clusters powered by AMD chips can run at their maximum potential.

With a focus on network utilization, Juniper's technology aims to optimize performance in HPC and AI environments. Sanyal emphasized how Juniper's solution improves network performance and efficiency by enabling both reordering at the NIC and packet spraying at the switch level. This is made possible through an open, standards-based method that was earlier only found in closed and proprietary systems.

Aside from the AMD collaboration, Juniper is extending its AI networking leadership through the introduction of the industry's first UEC-ready solution, a demonstration of the company's commitment to backing next-gen AI workloads. Juniper's Ops4AI Lab has tested their 800G switches with AMD Pollara NICs extensively, validating compatibility with AI and HPC requirements.

This energy is seen in Juniper's latest acknowledgement within the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Data Center Switching report, where it received the second-highest AI Ethernet Fabric score. Juniper's forward-thinking networking solutions are increasingly enabling AI and HPC workloads to realize record-breaking performance, attesting to the company's growing leadership in the AI networking industry.