Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today unveiled a broad set of networking and computing enhancements aimed at helping service providers better support artificial intelligence workloads.

The announcement, made ahead of the MWC mobile world congress 2026 in Barcelona, encompasses new routing platforms, AI-ready automation capabilities and telecom-optimized servers designed to support low-latency, high-capacity AI services from the core to the network edge.

The company’s expanded service provider strategy builds on its integration of Juniper Networks Inc. and is positioned as helping operators manage growing traffic volumes, virtualize and modernize network environments for AI-driven services.

A key component is an expansion of the Juniper PTX routing portfolio. The new Juniper PTX12000 series of modular routers is aimed at helping operators scale AI and cloud traffic without frequent infrastructure redesigns. The platform supports ultra-dense 800-gigabit port density on 1.6-terabit-ready systems and scales up to 345.6 terabits with the eight-slot PTX12008 and 518.4 terabits with the 12-slot PTX12012. HPE said the architecture is intended to preserve consistency while reducing latency, power consumption and operational costs as network demand grows.

HPE also introduced the Juniper PTX10002 line of fixed-form routers for AI network fabrics. The 2RU systems provide 28.8 terabits or 14.4 terabits of throughput with multi-rate 100G, 400G and 800G port options. HPE said they’re optimized for space- and power-constrained environments .

The routing portfolio is powered by the Juniper Express 5 application-specific integrated circuit, which HPE said delivers a 49% improvement in power efficiency compared with the previous generation. The software-based Juniper Routing Director has been enhanced to support agentic AI integrations, allowing operators to connect the platform to AI co-pilots to automate workflows, optimize wide-area network routing performance and simplify post-deployment operations.

On the computing side, HPE introduced the ProLiant Compute EL9000 chassis and EL140 Gen12 server, designed to accelerate 5G and AI deployments. The platform doubles front-haul network bandwidth and increases core counts by 20% over previous generations, delivering 72 CPU cores and 24 network ports per server in a 2U form factor, with up to two servers per chassis. The systems are powered by Intel Xeon 6 system-on-chip processors with virtualized Radio Access Network boost and built-in security features.

HPE is also integrating the Juniper Cloud Native Router into the 1U ProLiant Compute DL110 and the 2U EL140 Gen12 servers, consolidating RAN and computing functions into a single platform and reducing hardware and energy requirements at cell sites .

Another highlight is HPE’s Cloud Ops Software, a cloud management stack that unifies virtualization, containers, observability, AIOps, cyber resiliency, DevOps automation and FinOps across multicloud and multivendor environments. The company said the platform provides a single control plane to modernize private clouds and support secure, multitenant AI services at scale.

Separately, HPE Financial Services introduced 90/9 Advantage, a financing program that defers payments for 90 days followed by nine months of monthly lease payments across networking, computing, storage and software products.

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