Juniper Networks has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching. For us, it’s not just recognition—it’s a testament to our relentless drive and top-tier performance.
Figure 1: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Switching
Juniper is leading a new era of AI and IT that brings unprecedented simplicity, scale, and insight for proactive and efficient IT operations. Juniper is propelled by our differentiated AIOps features, intent-based networking, broad high-performance switching/routing portfolio, DCI and network security advancements.
And that’s only part of the story; Gartner has also released its Critical Capabilities for Data Center Switching report and Juniper is ranked here as well. Juniper scored the highest in Enterprise Data Center Network Build-out, second highest in AI Ethernet Fabric Build-out, and second highest in SONiC-Based Data Center Network Build-out Use Cases. Critical Capabilities help IT infrastructure owners:
- Gain deeper insights into vendor product and service offerings
- Understand which products and services are the best fit for your common usage scenarios
- Conduct strategic planning and develop RFPs with the input of an analysis of key software, technology or service offerings
We believe what sets us apart is our unique foundation of intent-based networking and AIOps. Juniper data center solutions are simple to design and operate, provide the stellar reliability and deliver clear, actionable insights for our customers. Juniper delivers an operations-first experience, open flexibility, and reliable performance through validated designs. Further, Juniper’s AI-optimized fabric capabilities deliver maximum performance for AI workloads. While others drown data center operators in telemetry data, Juniper’s unique contextual graph database technology enables operators to quickly find the root cause of a problem and rapidly remediate the issue. The tangible results include a staggering up to 10x improved reliability and up to 85% faster time to service that customers have experienced.
Putting experience first with Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform
At Juniper, we recognize that exceptional experiences are equally critical for end users and IT teams, so we’ve worked hard to remove friction points for data center networking design, deployment, and troubleshooting.
We believe our recognition in this Gartner® Magic Quadrant report validates Juniper’s experience-first approach to networking with our AI-Native Networking Platform, which is enabled by our unwavering commitment to:
Industry-leading AIOps
Powered by ten years of reinforced learning, Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform transforms contextual data into actionable insights. Automated workflows and self-driving AIOps enable proactive issue detected and resolution. And Marvis®, the industry’s only AI-Native end-to-end VNA, simplifies operations, while saving time and money. AIOps for the Data Center with Marvis and Mist™ delivers additional automation and insight to optimize DC experiences.
Simplified operations
Our operations-first approach to design, deployment and troubleshooting of data centers saves enterprises time and money. Juniper data center automation and assurance reduces the time to deploy and troubleshoot across any vendor’s hardware. Our single source of truth (contextual graph database) with closed loop validation enables operators to predict and proactively fix problems to avoid service disruptions.
Open flexibility
With Juniper you can design networks using proven technologies and products that avoid vendor lock-in. Advanced traffic management capabilities assure high-bandwidth, lossless, low-latency, scalable performance over Ethernet. Juniper data center automation is the only multi-vendor solution for DC fabric management and automation, providing customers with powerful strategic and design flexibility.
Validated solution performance
End-to-end validated designs ensure confidence in choice of products and reduce deployment risks. JVDs assure a complete DC solution, including compute, storage, switching, ops, and security. Juniper’s broad portfolio of high-performance switches/routers, including 800G and silicon diversity, drives scale and performance. Our Ops4AILab is a differentiator that helps customers work through performance and operational details so they can deploy AI infrastructure quickly and with confidence.
A BIG thank you goes out to all the dedicated team members at Juniper who played a vital role in achieving these recognitions. We are also grateful to our valued customers, Juniper authorized partners, and industry analysts who consistently place their trust in Juniper’s AI-Native Networking solutions.
Learn more about the Juniper Data Center portfolio:
- Gartner Report: 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Switching
- Gartner Report: 2025 Critical Capabilities for Data Center Switching
- Visit the Juniper Data Center page to learn more
Gartner Disclaimers:
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking, Andrew Lerner, Simon Richard, Nauman Raja, Jorge Aragon, Jonathan Forest, 31 March 2025.
Gartner Critical Capabilities for Data Center Networking, Andrew Lerner, Simon Richard, Nauman Raja, Jorge Aragon, Jonathan Forest, 1 April 2025.
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Juniper is recognized as Juniper Networks in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Networking.
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