HPE Discover vs. Cisco Live: What the Leading Vendors Are Saying About Campus Networking
Dell'Oro Group, Monday, June 22nd, 2026
Cisco and HPE laid out competing campus networking strategies for the AI era at their June 2026 conferences.
At their Las Vegas conferences, Cisco and HPE presented divergent approaches to keeping campus networking relevant amid enterprise AI transformation.
Cisco emphasized security with Live Protect and post-quantum capabilities and introduced the C9550 400G switch for AI traffic.
HPE focused on operational simplification through autonomous, AI-driven management, leveraging Juniper's tools after the acquisition.
Both pushed unified management platforms, Cisco Cloud Control and HPE GreenLake Intelligence, while converging product portfolios.
Together the two control over two-thirds of the campus networking market outside China.