HPE Simplifies Deployment of Private Cellular Networks With Launch of HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has launched HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G. This solution aims to simplify and speed up the deployment of private 5G networks, providing reliable wireless coverage for large campuses and industrial environments. It integrates comprehensive Wi-Fi and private 5G solutions, catering to industries like manufacturing, healthcare, public venues, and education. Key features include end-to-end offerings, new 4G/5G small cell radios, cloud-native management, and expanded AI data capabilities. This launch follows HPE's acquisition of Athonet in 2023, enhancing HPE's private cellular technology portfolio.
- Introduced HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, simplifying deployment of private cellular networks.
- Provides comprehensive Wi-Fi and private 5G solutions, catering to industries like manufacturing, healthcare, and education.
- Integrates Athonet core cellular solutions, enhancing HPE's existing networking strengths.
- End-to-end offering includes 4G/5G core, HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers, and SIM/eSIM cards.
- New 4G/5G small cell radios eliminate the need for third-party vendor tools.
- Simplified cloud-native management and automation for deployment and monitoring.
- Expanded AI data capture capabilities support AI data lakes and inference solutions.
- Interoperability with shared spectrum like CBRS in the US, and globally from 2025.
- Simplified configuration with pre-integrated, tested solutions for quick deployment.
- Ability to deploy networks in under 30 minutes with zero touch provisioning.
- Complexity of conventional private cellular networks had been a hindrance for deployment.
- Potentially high costs associated with integrating and deploying private 5G networks.
- Dependence on regulatory frameworks for spectrum use could limit deployment in some regions.
- Initial implementation may require significant investment in new hardware and management tools.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise's launch of HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G represents a pivotal shift in enterprise networking. The integration of Wi-Fi and private 5G solutions is a unique advancement, addressing the connectivity needs of industries like manufacturing, healthcare and education. By providing a comprehensive end-to-end private 5G network, HPE not only simplifies deployment but also eliminates the need for multiple management tools. This integration streamlines processes and reduces complexity, a significant advantage for businesses with limited networking expertise. Additionally, the inclusion of AI data capture capabilities adds a competitive edge, enabling the creation of AI data lakes and enhancing data analytics. This positions HPE to cater to the growing demands for robust, secure and efficient enterprise networking solutions.
The introduction of HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G can have considerable implications for the enterprise networking market. By addressing the complexities of deploying private cellular networks, HPE targets a critical pain point for many organizations. This move can potentially disrupt the market by offering an all-in-one solution that is easier to manage and deploy compared to conventional approaches. The ability to deploy solutions in under 30 minutes with zero-touch provisioning is particularly noteworthy. This reduces the deployment time and operational costs significantly. Moreover, by enabling communications service providers to deploy private 5G networks quickly, HPE opens new revenue streams in the private cellular market, strengthening its market position. This can lead to increased market share and potentially higher revenue for the company.
From a financial perspective, the launch of HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G is a strategically sound move. The growing demand for private 5G networks, driven by the need for reliable and secure wireless coverage, presents significant revenue potential. By simplifying deployment and management processes, HPE can attract a broad range of customers, from large enterprises to smaller organizations. The integration with existing Wi-Fi solutions and the focus on AI data capture and analytics can drive innovation and productivity gains for customers, making this offering appealing. Additionally, with the global private 5G market expected to grow substantially in the coming years, HPE's early entry and comprehensive solution can position it as a market leader, potentially driving long-term growth and profitability.
HPE Aruba Networking provides a comprehensive solution that removes the complexity of managing, deploying and purchasing enterprise private cellular networks
With this expansion of its secure edge-to-cloud portfolio, HPE Aruba Networking becomes the only global enterprise infrastructure vendor to provide comprehensive Wi-Fi and private 5G solutions, helping customers in industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, public venues, and education solve complex connectivity challenges across large and remote sites. HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G also helps customers make productivity and innovation gains as a complement to the cost-effective, high-capacity connectivity provided by Wi-Fi, in addition to expanding AI data capture and delivery capabilities for building AI data lakes and activating inference solutions.
"Enterprise and industrial customers are increasingly seeking to deliver wireless coverage in demanding environments, including large outdoor areas, serving fast-moving clients, and providing deterministic access in dedicated spectrum," said Stuart Strickland, wireless chief technology officer, HPE Aruba Networking. "The complexity of conventional approaches to private cellular networks has held them back. Building on HPE Aruba Networking's history of wireless innovation and leadership, we have uniquely positioned ourselves to enable new applications for private cellular by integrating Athonet core cellular solutions with our traditional strengths in enterprise networking.”
HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G also enables communications service providers (CSPs) to quickly deploy private 5G networks for their customers. This integrated private 5G solution complements existing Wi-Fi-based managed services and will help telco customers service the growing private cellular market and generate new revenue from their existing enterprise customers.
With the debut of HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, enterprises can increase reliable, secure, high-performance connectivity with a fully integrated private 5G network that features:
- An end-to-end offering that includes a 4G/5G core, HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers, SIM/eSIM cards, 4G/5G small cells, and dashboard.
- New 4G/5G small cell radios from HPE that provide indoor/outdoor coverage, eliminating the need to integrate and use a separate management tool from a third-party vendor.
- Simplified cloud-native management and automation for subscriber management, deployment management, core monitoring and radio monitoring, with future plans for integration with HPE Aruba Networking Central.
- Expanded AI data capture and delivery for building AI data lakes and activating inference solutions.
- Interoperability with shared spectrum for private enterprise use: Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum in the US, and globally, where regulatory frameworks allow, beginning in 2025.
- Simplified configuration with pre-integrated, tested solution including everything needed to deploy an enterprise private 4G/5G network.
- Ability to deploy solutions in under 30 minutes with zero touch provisioning and configuration wizards that mask the 3GPP cellular complexity.
This integration follows the 2023 acquisition of private cellular technology provider Athonet, which brings 15 years of leadership in private cellular networks, completing 500 enterprise deployments of private cellular solutions. Athonet is an award-winning technology pioneer with successful customer deployments in various industries, including leading mobile operators, hospitals, airports, transportation ports, utilities, government and public safety organizations.
“HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G is a significant step forward to solve for the complexity, cost, control, and management challenges associated with many private network deployments today,” said Patrick Filkins, Senior Research Manager, IoT and Telecommunications, IDC. “HPE Aruba Networking takes a grounded approach focusing on how to most efficiently integrate a private cellular network within an enterprise's existing IT framework, streamlining network and device management through the use of familiar tools, as well as dynamically assigning and preserving device policy across 4G/5G, Wi-Fi, and wired LAN networks.”
“‘Many private network solutions are too complex, even for large enterprises with internal network expertise,” said Tom Rebbeck, Partner, Analysys Mason. “We expect customers to embrace solutions that can make private networks easier to deploy and manage.”
“For IronYun's Vaidio Platform to be able to provide AI inferencing at the edge and drive accurate AI video search results, we needed an infrastructure that provided fast, available and reliable bandwidth without any complexity,” said Paul Sun, IronYun CEO. “We found it with HPE Aruba Networking, which provides us with all the components needed to deliver an end-to-end private 5G network for AI. HPE Aruba Networking’s private 5G network is the technical foundation for all Vaidio functions for real-time video analysis and AI inferencing that deliver AI insights to help improve security outcomes.”
"Private cellular, with its wide area, deterministic coverage, is the ideal fit for Disc Golf Network's global live competition coverage of the Disc Golf Pro Tour," said Baker Helton, DGPT Vice President of Business Administration. "The new HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G offering will make it that much easier for companies to do what we’ve done and meet their requirements for pervasive coverage with an integrated offering using CBRS.”
HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G will be on display at HPE Discover, the company’s flagship event, taking place June 17-19 in
Additional Resources:
- Read today’s HPE Aruba Networking Blog: “5 Reasons to adopt HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G”
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise doubles down on private 5G, extends leadership in wireless connectivity with acquisition of Athonet
- HPE completes acquisition of private 5G leader Athonet
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open, and intelligent technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com
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Ben Stricker
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