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HPE today announced Gartner has recognized HPE as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, positioning the company furthest in "Completeness of Vision" and highest for "Ability to Execute." This marks the fifth consecutive time that Gartner has placed HPE in this position, and the 20th time in a row that HPE has been in the Leaders Quadrant of this report.
HPE positioned furthest in Completeness of Vision and highest in Ability to Execute for the fifth consecutive time.
This marks the 20th consecutive time HPE has been placed in the Leaders Quadrant of this Gartner report.
Completeness of Vision evaluation includes market understanding, innovation, business model, and geographic strategy.
Ability to Execute criteria includes product quality, market responsiveness, sales execution, pricing, and customer experience.
HPE enables self-driving networks with proactive issue prevention through a unified AI-native platform.
Customers are reducing trouble tickets and operational costs with autonomous operations across wired, wireless, and WAN environments.
Completeness of Vision is evaluated on criteria such as market understanding, marketing and sales strategy, offering (product) strategy, innovation, Business Model, Vertical Strategy and Geographic Strategy. Ability to Execute criteria includes product or service, market responsiveness/record, marketing execution, Overall Viability, Sales Execution and Pricing and Customer Experience.
Powered by a unified AI-native platform and advanced agentic AI, HPE enables self-driving networks that proactively prevent issues before users are impacted. Customers are reducing trouble tickets, lowering operational costs, and accelerating resolution times through autonomous operations across wired, wireless, and WAN environments. For nearly a decade, HPE has provided AI-driven networking with closed-loop automation that continuously learns, adapts, and improves through real-world deployments.
"We believe HPE's position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure reflects the strong customer momentum behind our vision for AI-native, self-driving networks that are purpose-built to support AI workloads, rapidly expanding device connectivity, increasingly complex environments, and evolving security challenges," said Sujai Hajela, executive vice president, campus and branch, Networking, HPE. "Customers are increasingly embracing autonomous networking to simplify operations, improve user experiences, and accelerate outcomes at global scale by bringing together HPE Mist and HPE Aruba Central platforms under a common self-driving umbrella."
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