The HPE Telco Shared Lab in Fort Collins, Colorado is where HPE is working on the massive task of deploying 5G at scale. As well as developing technology and contributing hardware to the overall 5G project, the lab is also involved in operator blueprint validation, engineering reference designs and proof of concept trials. They have over 1,000 powerful servers on site and the whole system has been virtualised, for remote access.
Research & Development
For the past 18 years, the HPE Telco team has been deep into developing and refining carrier-grade Linux solutions and they have contributed research into data plane acceleration to the Linux Foundation’s Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
HPE 5G Core Lab
The two year-old 5G Core Lab works on validating the HPE 5G core stack in multi-vendor environments and acts as a neutral proving ground for functionality and performance testing and validation, as well as a space to demo use cases and engage in pre-launch testing and validation.
This work comes under the umbrella of HPE’s “Intelligent Edge” vision. Here, HPE is carving itself a role in facilitating large-scale telco cloud and edge deployments. It is also drive the adoption of network function virtualiation (NFV) as well as its orchestration, core stack and ODIM (Open Distributed Infrastructure Management) initiatives.
Source: Forbes