Weekly Networking News: Cisco, Juniper & Nokia (Aug 3, 2025)

This week’s networking news round‑up explores how the industry’s biggest vendors are pushing the boundaries of AI‑ready networks, data centre fabrics and service provider solutions.

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AI‑Native Networking: How Juniper’s HPE Acquisition and Cisco Live 2025 Signal a New Era for Data Centers

 The networking industry is at an inflection point, where artificial intelligence workloads and the demands of modern data centers are forcing vendors to rethink their architectures. In July 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise completed its US$14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, creating a combined HPE Networking business that doubles HPE’s networking revenue and positions it as a direct competitor to Cisco. A month earlier, Cisco used its Cisco Live 2025 conference to unveil an AI‑first vision for networking.

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JunOS upgrade

JUNOS upgrade on MX960 platform.

Recently I have been participating in project where we had to upgade few big boxes in the network. I have been upgrading Alcatel SR7750 TiMOS, Juniper MX960 JunOS and few Cisco boxes.

Here I am going to show you how to upgrade JunOS on Juniper MX960. I hope this can be usefull.

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