Social distancing just became even harder in the bustling market for open RAN technology after HPE today set up its own server stall replete with orchestration bells and whistles. The US IT giant has been desperate to uncover a new growth opportunity. Sales fell 3.6% last year, to $56.6 billion, and earnings slumped 10%, to about $2.8 billion. It evidently believes the communications sector is a good bet.
Hence the unveiling of HPE Communications Technology Group (CTG), which lumps together various telco activities and gives them a shiny new outfit and some eye-catching new products. Today s push is mainly about the open RAN side of things, where HPE executives have spotted an opportunity to disrupt the status quo. It s a matter of how much vested interest there is in the old model, said Claus Pedersen, HPE s vice president of telecom infrastructure solutions, on a call with reporters. We have no vested interest in the old model.