HPE, a leader in essential enterprise technology, has unveiled new solutions across networking and compute for Mobile World Congress 2026 that, it says, accelerate modernisation for service providers.
With the new products and enhanced capabilities, HPE says its customers can build and operate their own AI infrastructure with low-latency, high-capacity, AI-native solutions from the core to the edge.
The networking capabilities include the new Juniper PTX12000 line of modular routers, which enables network operators to scale AI and cloud traffic without repeated infrastructure redesigns.
With ultra-dense 800G port density on 1.6T-ready platforms, the new routers sustain predictable, low-latency performance as traffic grows.
The platform scales to 345.6T with the 8-slot PTX12008 and 518.4T with the 12-slot PTX12012, enabling seamless capacity expansion while preserving architectural consistency and reducing latency, power consumption, and costs.
Meanwhile, the new Juniper PTX10002 line of fixed form routers delivers high-density routing in a compact 2RU footprint for AI network fabrics. With 28.8T or 14.4T of throughput and flexible multi-rate 100G, 400G, and 800G port options, the expanded portfolio enables efficient scaling of AI clusters and WAN connectivity, while giving customers the flexibility to optimise space, power, and port density as AI and cloud traffic grows.
HPE has also announced that the Juniper Routing Director is now agentic-AI ready, letting businesses connect Routing Director to their own AI co-pilots to quickly fix WAN routing issues and simplify ongoing operations, giving customers the flexibility to use agentic AI to automate workflows, optimise WAN routing performance, and simplify AI-native, post-deployment operations.
At MWC, HPE is also showing new compute innovations that speed 5G and AI deployments, enhance security and streamline automation from the edge through the core network.
They include the HPE ProLiant Compute EL9000 chassis and EL140 Gen12 server, which lets telecom operators handle twice the network traffic on a single server, reducing infrastructure costs and ongoing total cost of ownership.
This combination delivers 72 CPU cores and 24 available network ports per server, in a compact 2U form factor, with up to two servers supported per chassis. Powered by the Intel Xeon 6 SoC with integrated AI acceleration including Intel vRAN Boost and Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) , built-in HPE security also protects critical systems and data, ensuring compliance with the latest network security standards.
Also part of the HPE display will be Integration of the Juniper Cloud Native Router, now available on the 1U HPE ProLiant Compute DL110 and the new 2U HPE ProLiant EL140 Gen12 servers, which consolidates RAN and compute functions into a single server. This enables service provider operators eliminate routing hardware at cell site locations, reducing hardware purchase expenses and ongoing energy costs.
As service providers modernise for AI, they are being forced to rethink how they operate their clouds driven by rising virtualisation costs, sovereign data requirements, and the need to unify VMs and containers across the 5G core.
HPE says its Cloud Ops Software is an integrated cloud management stack that brings together virtualisation and containers, monitoring and full-stack observability, AIOps, cyber resiliency, DevOps automation, and FinOps—across multicloud, multi-vendor environments.
It provides a single, unified control plane to modernise private clouds, reduce dependence on cost-prohibitive hypervisors, and run secure, multi-tenant services at scale.
By combining automation, lifecycle management, and proactive issue resolution in one operational foundation, HPE says its Cloud Ops Software helps operators lower risk, control costs, accelerate new service rollout, and confidently launch AI-driven and managed services.
