HPE announced its plan to acquire Juniper in January 2024. The saga has a while to run as the DoJ set a 180-day deadline for the sale of HPE’s Instant On business, and it always takes a while for lawyers and finance folk to tie up all the loose ends on a big takeover of this sort.

The Justice Department settled its lawsuit challenging Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $13 billion takeover of Juniper Networks, less than two weeks before a trial was set to start. The settlement was disclosed in court filings late Friday and will require the combined company to sell HPE’s Instant On wireless networking business and auction off a license to Juniper’s competing Mist business.

DOJ green-lights HPE's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper, but the settlement requires the combined company to divest HPE's Instant On wireless networking business and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI software.