What is the news?
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G to help customers accelerate and simplify the deployment and management of private 5G networks, providing high levels of reliable wireless coverage across large campus and industrial environments and opening up new, untapped use cases for private cellular.
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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.
Significance of Introducing HPE Aruba Networking EnterpriseÂ
HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G also enables communications service providers (CSPs) to deploy private 5G networks for their customers quickly. 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.
Benefits of f HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G
- 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 3rd 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 a 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.
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Conclusion
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.
FAQs
1. What is a private 5G network?
Private 5G networks are nonpublic mobile networks that use licensed, unlicensed, or shared spectrum. They augment existing capabilities and introduce new possibilities that other systems cannot support.
2. What are the benefits of deploying a private 5G network for enterprises?
- Increased Speed and Bandwidth
- Low Latency
- Customized 5G Network
- Greater security
- Increased efficiency
3. How does a private 5G network differ from a public 5G network?
A private 5G network, or a non-public 5G network, shares similarities with public 5G networks in utilizing the same underlying network solutions, including hardware, software, encoding schemes, and spectrum (in some countries). However, there are several key distinctions between the two.
The primary difference lies in their intended purpose and scale. While public 5G networks cater to tens of millions of subscribers nationwide, private 5G networks are dedicated to the exclusive use of a single enterprise or organization, often confined to a specific location or facility.
4. What are the key components and features of HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G solution?
The HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G solution includes the following key components and features:
- The end-to-end offering comprises a 4G/5G core, HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers, SIM/eSIM cards, 4G/5G small cells, and a management dashboard.
- New 4G/5G small cell radios from HPE that provide indoor/outdoor coverage, eliminating the need for a separate third-party management tool.
- Simplified cloud-native management and automation for subscriber management, deployment management, core monitoring, and radio monitoring, with plans for future integration with HPE Aruba Networking Central.
- Interoperability with shared spectrum for private enterprise use, such as Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum in the US and globally where regulatory frameworks allow, beginning in 2025.
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