HPE unveils private 5G offering

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s has announced the company is getting into the private 5G space. As part of the venture, HPE said they were “bringing together cellular and Wi-Fi for private networking in enterprise, industrial and public sector use cases”.

The private 5G solution is based on the HPE 5G Core Stack, an open, cloud-native and container-based network solution. The Core Stack is a fully featured standalone 5G core network solution that is cloud-native and multi-vendor by design. The automated operations will be run through the HPE Service Director, a product for model driven fulfilment.

HPE’s private 5G offering is claiming to be easily usable in both 5G and Wi-Fi networks across campuses and industrial environments. The private 5G solution has also been pre-integrated with 5G radio access network solutions from leading vendors for providing customers with end-to-end 5G network deployments.

In public sector usage, the private 5G solution together with Aruba wireless technologies enables telecommunications and enterprises to extend coverage with private cellular networking, with a focus on seamlessly integrating across 5G and Wi-Fi.

Tom Craig, VP and General Manager of HPE’s Communications Technology Group, said, “With our leadership in both enterprise and cellular connectivity, HPE is the perfect partner to help customers deploy private networks that are future proofed for today’s data-first reality. Together, HPE’s private 5G solution and Aruba Wi-Fi technology promises a complete private networking solution that helps to optimize the working environment, as well as giving telcos new opportunities to grow their enterprise business.”