The key differentiators of HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Voice Services are:

• – Private networks market presence
• – Easy to adopt voice solutions
• – Automation for fast deployment
• – Excellent usability with intuitive operations for daily operations
• – 5G ready
• – Compact with small footprint suitable for private networks

From HPE market perception voice and communication services demand is increasing in several vertical segment (public safety, mining and oil&gas, manufacturing, transport, utilities). IMS adoption for Mobile Private Networks is motivated by the following key drivers:

• – Reduce TCO: while VoNR is still at early stage, IMS architecture can be leveraged to provide voice services,
• – Improve terminals battery life with a better usage of radio resources, VoLTE and VoNR,
• – Interconnection and roaming with Public Networks
• – Higher voice quality thanks to wide band codecs offered with both VoLTE and VoNR.

Effective Communication Services

• – Voice and Video over 4G and 5G (VoLTE, ViLTE and VoNR, ViNR)
• – 5G NSA and 5GSA options
• – Quality of Service
• – Emergency Calls

Secure Communication

• – IMS AKA Authentication
• – Topology Hiding
• – Media Encryption

Supplementary Services and SMS over IP

• – Call Diversions
• – Barring
• – Call Hold/Waiting
• – Ad Hoc Conference
• – SMS over IP
• – VoiceMail
• – Self-Management

VoLTE Interconnection & Roaming

• – S8HR Roaming capabilities
• – Emergency Local BreakOut
• – PSTN/PLMN Interconnection
• – PBX Interconnection

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• – Modular and fully personalized engagement
• – Enhanced Incident Management experience with priority access
• – Digitally enabled and AI driven customer experience

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Licensing Options

HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Voice Services is mainly offered as perpetual licenses with yearly support fees but also available as a yearly or 3-years subscription with 24x7 Business Critical support.

When purchasing perpetual licenses, the customer will need to choose from the following attributes:

• – Baseline
• – Capacity: 5 bands
• – High availability level: none, local or geo-redundancy
• – Support level

Perpetual licensing

Up to version 1.24.3

It is necessary to purchase one baseline for Voice Services and to dimension the capacity license according to the customer desired number of Provisioned Devices filling in the capacity bands (first 300, from 301 to 5000, from 5001 ,to 10000, from 10001 to 25000, more than 25000).

In case of local HA you need to add High Availability (HA) license.

In case a Geo-Redundant solution is needed, the baseline license and the HA license are doubled.

Services are quoted separately.

From version 1.25.1

It is necessary to purchase one baseline for Voice Services and to dimension the capacity license according to the customer desired number of Provisioned Devices filling in the capacity bands (Tier1-first 100, Tier2-from 101 to 1000, Tier3-from 1001 to 10000, Tier4-from 10001 to 100000, Tier5-more than 100000).

In case of local HA you need to add High Availability (HA) license.

In case a Geo-Redundant solution is needed, the baseline license and the HA license are doubled.

Services are quoted separately.

Subscription licensing

The subscription selection is driven firstly by local High Availability and the service level desired by the customer and the services are included in the subscription; the second selection driver is the duration of the subscription.

Up to version 1.24.3

Select the subscription tier based on duration (that can be either one year or three years) and service level that covers the maximum number of devices the customer plans to use. In case more devices need to be licensed, an increment to the next tier can be purchased.

Options are available for Geo-Redundancy and Node Extension (extra user plane).

From version 1.25.1

The new subscription model requires:

A baseline license defining the redundancy and support model

The related capacity license, according to the customer desired number of Provisioned Devices filling in the capacity bands (Tier1-first 100, Tier2-from 101 to 1000, Tier3-from 1001 to 10000, Tier4-from 10001 to 100000, Tier5-more than 100000).

Options are available for Geo-Redundancy and Node Extension (extra user plane).

Customers can purchase and use HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Voice Services with existing qualifying HPE servers they may already own, or purchase and use with a new qualifying server purchase through HPE or through an authorized HPE Partner.

For evaluation purposes, HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Voice Services solution is available as a 12-month subscription with 9x5 support.

Deployment Model

HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Voice Services can be deployed on-premises. The network functions are fully containerized in a VM can be deployed on top of a Hypervisor (eg Proxmox or VMware).

HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Voice Services is deployed as Compact (all-in-one) model in which all containerized NFs are hosted in a single VM. HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Voice Services contains an Element Management System to perform FCAPS (Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security) management.

Main HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Voice Services key factors are the following:

• – Hardware agnostic, HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Voice Services is a COTS ready product.
• – Support for Compact (all-in-one) to breck down complexity and simplify the OAM.
• – Vertical and horizontal scaling based on customer requirements.
• – Automation for onboarding, configuration, provisioning, and licensing.