Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is in talks to buy Juniper Networks in a deal valuing the network gear maker at about $13 billion ($19.5 billion), a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
A deal between the two companies could be announced as early as this week, the source said.
The deal would help bolster the nearly 100-year-old technology company’s artificial intelligence (AI) offerings, according to a WSJ report earlier in the day.
Hewlett Packard declined to comment on the WSJ report, while Juniper Networks did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Last year, server maker HPE said it was rolling out a cloud computing service designed to power AI systems similar to ChatGPT.
Juniper’s high-performance network and service offerings include routing, switching, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), network security, AI-enabled enterprise networking operations (AIOps), and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies.