As the demand for AI networking solutions continues to grow, driven by the bandwidth-intensive GPUs needed to support artificial intelligence technologies, businesses are reevaluating their network infrastructures.
Juniper Networks Inc., which was recently acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is focused on helping customers construct their own network infrastructures.
“We are dealing with the … customers who already know that their data privacy is a big issue,” said Praveen Jain(pictured), senior vice president and general manager of AI clusters and cloud-ready data center at Juniper. “They are already interested in building their own on-prem data centers because of data privacy or any other reasons they may have. These are the customers who are in more advanced stages. They know that they have to build it, but even those customers are the customers who need help because AI is so new. Nobody knows how to operate this infrastructure. What is the right infrastructure, what is the performance, what’s the cost it’s going to …