HPE at
Mobile World Congress

Deploying 5G Core Network Functions (CNF) from multiple Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and hardware vendors has become increasingly complex. The server hardware provisioning and management is carried out using vendor-specific tools because each NEP has its own methodology for deploying CNFs. HPE is changing this in partnership with Red Hat. HPE has developed and has certified a new HPE Blueprint solutioning tool for the provisioning of HPE infrastructure for 5G Core solutions on Red Hat OpenShift, resulting in a more open provisioning of infrastructure while reducing deployment complexity and cost. This demo will showcase the HPE ProLiant Compute DL380 Gen12 platform powered by Intel Xeon 6 E-Core processors.

Samsung will demonstrate its AI-Radio Access Network (AI-RAN) solutions running on HPE carrier-grade infrastructure. The demo will showcase how integrating Samsung’s virtualized RAN (vRAN) software with AI/ML models deployed on HPE’s high-performance servers can deliver measurable improvements in network performance—particularly at the cell edge—while also reducing energy consumption.

HPE Juniper leads in network innovation. This HPE Juniper solution runs the Juniper Cloud-Native Router (JCNR) as a virtual network function on HPE Telco Edge platforms like the HPE ProLiant DL110 servers, delivering efficient cell-site routing. It simplifies deployment, reduces rack space, power, and cabling needs, and lowers TCO through virtualization and streamlined operations—enabling agile, cost-effective edge routing for modern mobile networks. This demo will showcase the HPE ProLiant Compute EL9000 Chassis with the HPE ProLiant Compute EL140 Gen12 platform powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors.

HPE Telco Solutions will be demonstrating the latest innovations in telco automation/OSS to help customers become more agile and resource-efficient by accelerating the journey towards autonomous network operations. This includes the use of conversational agents to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues; zero-touch rollout and lifecycle management of multi-vendor infrastructure and workloads across hybrid cloud, whether at RAN edge, in the core data centers, or in the public cloud; AI/ML-driven integrated fault and performance management in one scalable cloud-native solution; and improvement of TTM for complex network services with pre-packaged intent-based orchestration use-cases.

Today, applications are deployed as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) on fixed hardware with a very thin KVM-based infrastructure layer to host virtual machines. Performance and quality are enhanced through a partnership with AMD, ensuring optimized execution on targeted platforms.

The direction is toward Cloud-Native Functions (CNFs) on fixed hardware, using a minimal CNF infrastructure layer for microservices deployment and lifecycle management. An automation framework underpins infrastructure LCM, application LCM, and configuration management, streamlining operations end to end. This approach supports a wide range of capacities and functions while maintaining a consistent two-server footprint across all configurations, simplifying planning and operations.

The demo highlights how cutting-edge, deterministic Ethernet fabrics enable organizations to deploy and scale AI initiatives with confidence. By leveraging a lossless, AI-optimized network architecture compliant with Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) standards, the solution delivers ultra-low latency, high scalability, and predictable performance—capabilities critical for large-scale AI workloads. Key features include the seamless coexistence of RoCEv2 and UET traffic on a single switching fabric, intelligent congestion management, real-time traffic optimization, and robust multi-site connectivity with consistent performance, all delivered with simplified management and operational flexibility. Collectively, these innovations demonstrate how next-generation Ethernet fabrics can efficiently support and scale AI-driven use cases across modern enterprise environments.

Securing today’s hybrid networks, which span public and private clouds, office locations, and remote user environments, is a challenge for enterprise IT organizations who look to secure these distributed environments with limited visibility and fragmented tools. The HPE Hybrid Mesh Firewall provides end-to-end, 360° visibility, unified policy creation and management, and automated enforcement across hybrid environments, supporting virtual, cloud-native, and physical security components. Organizations can see everything in their networks, define policies once and apply them everywhere, detect and mitigate issues with AI-powered threat intelligence, and extend Zero Trust controls from data center to end users with centralized administration.

Telcos are modernizing how they build and operate their networks. Radio access networks, 5G core, and OSS/BSS now run across virtualized, cloud-native, and public cloud environments. These environments are software-defined, multi-tenant, and operate at massive scale. HPE CloudOps Software brings provisioning, observability, and operations together so service providers can manage this complexity and focus on delivering mobile services.

HPE is helping customers modernize data centers for AI and migrate to modern virtualized platforms like HPE VME. This demo, led by an HPE Networking chief technologist, shows how high-performance AI network fabric design gives service providers a competitive edge. It also highlights the importance of microsegmentation while using recent AI‑network projects to demonstrate how HPE delivers secure, efficient, data center workloads.

Explore the new era of connectivity and see how HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G can easily and efficiently transform your business operations for seamless integration and rapid setup. Visit our booth for a live demo showcasing the full stack of private 5G offerings featuring our intuitive cloud dashboard and our new on-premises solution.

HPE Networking SD-WAN solutions enable enterprise IT leaders and managed service providers to implement SASE and Zero Trust frameworks to tackle the enterprise networking and security challenges of hybrid working and cloud computing. Secure your WAN edge with industry-leading SD-WAN delivered from an automated, scalable, and cost-effective solution that protects users and IoT at the edge and delivers the best performance when connecting to SaaS and cloud-hosted applications.

This demo highlights the latest self‑driving capabilities across the HPE Networking portfolio for campus and branch environments. Attendees will see how autonomous networking is delivered today through the combined strengths of HPE Aruba Central and Mist, and how cross‑portfolio innovation is accelerating the journey toward fully self‑driving networks. The session showcases real examples of AI-native automation, simplified operations, and unified management designed to empower Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to deliver more resilient, efficient, and differentiated services to their enterprise customers.

See how HPE’s AI-driven, self-driving networks power real-world use cases across key verticals: 

• Retail: Enable proximity engagement, wayfinding, and shop traffic analytics to improve customer experiences and drive revenue.
• Healthcare: Experience how location intelligence improves patient wayfinding, locates critical equipment in seconds, streamlines staff workflows, and improves productivity to drive operational efficiencies.
• Higher education: An intelligent, connected campus delivering high-performance connectivity, Zero Trust security, and AI-driven network automation to optimize teaching, learning, and campus operations.
• Hospitality: Elevate guest and fan experiences with AI-driven automation and insights that drive property-wide excellence.

Discover the HPE Private Cloud AI developer system, the ideal AI sandbox for teams dedicated to rapid prototyping and proof of concept. This engineered platform serves as your entry point for AI innovation, providing a simplified environment that allows you to quickly build and experiment with new models, accelerating your journey from idea to business value.

With the rising energy costs of data centers driven by AI workloads, sustainability has become a critical priority for cloud, enterprise, and service providers. Network sustainability analytics transforms raw power and thermal telemetry into actionable dashboards, forecasts, and recommendations to help customers reduce emissions, manage energy spend, and meet compliance goals at scale. The demo shows how operators can track key sustainability metrics, streamline compliance reporting, and lower costs by prioritizing the actions with the greatest impact.

Organizations aim to maximize returns from investments in "AI Factory" GPU clusters for AI model training, tuning, and inferencing. This requires equitable, secure, and performant resource access, with self-service options for agility and tight cost monitoring. HPE offers an adaptable full-stack AI platform with control plane and workflow automations, enabling IT managers and service administrators to implement and scale these processes as AI workloads grow.

The HPE Cray Supercomputing EX255a Accelerator Blade provides unmatched AMD APU density as it packs eight AMD MI300a APUs into a one-rack-unit form factor. Explore how HPE 100% liquid-cooling technology makes that industry-leading density possible when this accelerator blade is installed within the compute chassis of either the HPE Cray Supercomputing EX4000 or HPE Cray Supercomputing EX2500 systems.

With progressive memory technology at the core, we offer products, services, and systems that create choice and define the future. Partnering with HPE, we are taking this approach not only to drive AI solutions on Planet Earth but to the Extreme Edge in orbit and beyond.

Today, a series of market megatrends are creating disruptive shifts in enterprise IT strategy. They reframe customer problems, challenge established assumptions, and generate urgency to act.

Visit the Acceleration Playbooks Wall where we examine these megatrends and explore how HPE’s Acceleration Playbooks can help customers not only address the challenges they present but capitalize on the opportunities they create.