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2024 Wired, WLAN Gartner Magic Quadrant: Soon-

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BY GINA NARCISI
APRIL 3, 2024, 2:35 PM EDT

The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN
Infrastructure features a busy Leaders quadrant commanded by Juniper Networks and
HPE Aruba, which are slated to come together by the end of 2024 or early 2025.

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The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN
Infrastructure report is out, and the headline this year is that Juniper Networks and HPE
Aruba Networking nabbed the top two spots in the Leaders quadrant at a time when
competition is fierce in the networking space.

Juniper Networks grabbed the No. 1 position with HPE Aruba Networking in second
place. The report comes just months after HPE revealed plans to acquire Juniper in a
$14 billion deal that sets up a battle for network supremacy in the AI era and poses a
potential threat to networking market heavyweight Cisco Systems.

However, Cisco once again was listed in the Leaders quadrant, which was also
occupied by Huawei, Extreme Networks and Fortinet, all of which are report mainstays
over the last few years. The 2024 report featured an empty Challengers quadrant; four
Niche Players, including one newcomer, Allied Telesis; and two Visionaries.
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With 12 wired and wireless vendors landing on the 2024 Magic Quadrant this year, here
are the companies that ranked as Leaders, Niche Players or Visionaries, as well as the
strengths and weaknesses of each vendor, according to Gartner.

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BY GINA NARCISI

Gina Narcisi is a senior editor covering the networking and telecom

markets for CRN.com. Prior to joining CRN, she covered the
networking, unified communications and cloud space for TechTarget.
She can be reached at gnarcisi@thechannelcompany.com

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