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Question: Simon Leopold - Raymond James - Analyst
: Great. Thanks for doing the call and appreciate you taking the question. It's been a long time since Juniper has engaged with the
investment community. Would it be possible to get an update on Juniper's traction and progress securing business in AI back-end
applications and the nature of its customers such as Hyperscale, NeoCloud and Enterprise? Thank you.
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JULY 10, 2025 / 2:00PM, HPE.N - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co Juniper Networks Acquisition
Question: Meta Marshall - Morgan Stanley & Co Ltd - Analyst
: Great. Thank you. Rami, great to hear you again. Maybe just expanding on Simon's question, you gave commentary just kind of on
the order traction you were seeing with the cloud. But given that the quarter has closed, were there any high-level insights you could
kind of give on Juniper's performance in Q2? Thanks
Question: Wamsi Mohan - Bank of America Securities - Analyst
: Hi. Yes, thank you so much, and congrats on closing the deal. I guess -- I wanted to ask about the synergy number, which you upsided
to $600 million from at least $450 million-plus. And maybe you can help me think through where that incremental synergies are
coming from and put them in the context of both the headcount reduction you announced earlier the year and catalysts that you've
been working on?
Question: Aaron Rakers - Wells Fargo Securities LLC - Analyst
: Yeah, thanks for doing the call and taking a question. Antonio and Rami, I'm curious on how we think about the integration path
forward, how you measure kind of key milestones. And what I want to ask about is kind of the integration of Mist across a front-end
and back-end wired AI infrastructure. You've got HPE's asset in Slingshot. You've got obviously QFX and MX Router.
So I'm curious of how we or investors should think about, over the next 12 months, the key integration points that you're looking
to achieve. Thank you.
Question: Matthew Niknam - Deutsche Bank AG - Analyst
: Hey, guys, thanks so much for taking the question and congrats on the deal close. I'm just curious, back in Jan of 2024, there was a
conference call where, Antonio, you had laid out the rationale for the deal. And so I'm wondering since then, it's been about, call it,
over 18 months. How has the rationale evolved or changed? And then perhaps I can sneak in also, how has the customer reaction
to the deal evolved or changed relative to 18 months ago? Thanks.
Question: Samik Chatterjee - JPMorgan Chase & Co - Analyst
: Yeah, great and congrats on the deal closing and good to hear you both on the call. Maybe if I can sort of ask you on the revenue
synergy a bit more and particularly how you're thinking about revenue synergies relative to the cloud vertical, around the opportunity
where Juniper already does well in that vertical on the networking side.
And how do you think about sort of the opportunity with Tier 1 or Tier 2 clouds in relation to selling the server portfolio on that
front? Like just maybe help me think through, is it really, on the revenue synergy side, more of a Tier 1 cloud opportunity? Or are
you thinking of the opportunity as more revenue synergy being more like Tier 2 neocloud-driven? Any color on that front would be
helpful. Thank you.
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