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Juniper Networks Positioned Furthest in “Completeness of Vision” and Highest for “Ability to Execute” in 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure by Gartner® for Fourth Consecutive Time

  • Juniper named a Leader for the fifth consecutive time
  • Continued momentum for Mist™, in our opinion, Juniper’s AI-native networking platform with self-driving operations using Marvis Actions and agentic AI

Juniper Networks, (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-native networks, has announced that in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, for the fourth consecutive time, Gartner Inc. has positioned it furthest in “Completeness of Vision” and highest for “Ability to Execute”. In this latest Magic Quadrant, Gartner has also named Juniper a Leader for the fifth consecutive time.

Completeness of Vision is evaluated on criteria such as market understanding, marketing and sales strategy, offering (product) strategy, innovation etc. Ability to Execute criteria includes product or service, market responsiveness/record, marketing execution, etc.

As Gartner explains, “A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner’s market view. A Magic Quadrant provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers, in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct.”

“AI for networking operations (AIOps) has become the strategic focus for enterprises to prepare their wired and wireless infrastructure for the future,” said Sudheer Matta, SVP, Campus & Branch, Juniper Networks. “With over a decade of AI innovation under our belt, Juniper delivers holistic, self-driving networking solutions featuring digital experience twins with agentic AI and Large Experience Models (LEMs) that deliver exceptional user experiences and simplified IT operations. We believe that being named a Leader by Gartner for the fifth time in a row underscores the advantages of our true AI-native platform with self-driving operations and provides validation for any enterprise looking for a wired/wireless infrastructure that is purpose-built for the modern AI era.”

The company believes continued customer traction for its Mist AI-native networking platform and the Marvis® AI engine has been the defining factor in accelerating sales momentum in the enterprise sector with orders for Mist and other products attached to the Mist cloud growing more than 40 percent year-over-year in Q1 2025.

“As one of the world’s largest grocery retailers with over 7,000 stores worldwide, the ALDI SOUTH Group continuously explores new ways to streamline operations, enhance in-store experiences, and offer customers high-quality products at unbeatable prices. To support this objective, Juniper provides ALDI with a campus network which supports secure, reliable connectivity across supply chain operations, point-of-sale systems and digital in-store experiences. ALDI selected Juniper for their next-generation network transformation, AI-native, cloud-native architecture. The EX4000 access switch is tailor-made for distributed retail enterprise deployments, Mist’s cloud-scale NAC simplifies secure access at massive scale, and Juniper’s Wi-Fi 6E delivers seamless wireless performance focused on user experience — all driven by the Mist platform.”

- Jens Radeck, IT Manager, ALDI International Services SE & Co. oHG

We feel amplifying the impact of its strategy to extend Marvis AI across the Mist AI-native networking platform, Juniper was also recently recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching, published on March 31, 2025.

Gartner Disclaimer

Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, Mike Leibovitz, Christian Canales, Nauman Raja, Tim Zimmerman, June 25, 2025 and Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching, Andrew Lerner, Simon Richard, et al, March 31, 2025

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s Research & Advisory organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Juniper Networks is recognized as Juniper Networks in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure report.

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks is leading the convergence of AI and networking. Mist™, Juniper’s AI-native networking platform is purpose-built to run AI workloads and simplify IT operations, assuring exceptional secure user and application experiences—from the edge, to the data center, to the cloud. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net, X, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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