HPE Enters Private 5G Fray With Athonet Buy

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), which owns Aruba Networks, is acquiring private cellular OEM Athonet to expand its overall private 5G offerings to both enterprises and communications service providers. The Athonet acquisition strengthens HPE’s private networking capabilities to help enterprise customers accelerate 5G deployments and telco customers drive new revenue streams, according to Tom Craig, global vice president and general manager, Communications Technology Group at HPE.

“The combination of Aruba+Athonet now gives us the most complete private 5G and WiFi portfolio in the market, and puts HPE at the forefront of a growing private 5G market that IDC predicts to grow to $1.6B annually by 2026,” Craig said.

Based in Vicenza, Italy, Athonet has more than 15 years of experience delivering 4G and 5G mobile core solutions to customers and partners globally, with more than 450 customer deployments in various industries.

“With enterprises facing complex connectivity challenges across large and remote sites, private 5G offers high levels of coverage, reliability and mobility across campus and industrial environments. It also augments the cost-effective, high-capacity connectivity provided by WiFi,” Craig said. “The incorporation of Athonet’s technology will allow HPE to deliver private networking capabilities directly to enterprises as part of HPE’s Aruba networking portfolio, while also enabling carriers to quickly deploy private 5G networks for their customers.”

HPE will integrate Athonet’s technology into its existing CSP and Aruba networking enterprise offerings to create a private networking portfolio that accelerates digital transformation from edge-to-cloud. 

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