Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (00:03):
AI transformation and private cellular networks are reshaping the telecom landscape, creating new opportunities and challenges for service providers. Joining us to discuss these critical industry shifts are Amit Stein, head of Telco, NWE, and account Executive at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Alex Quach, vice president and General Manager of Wireline and Core network division at Intel Corporation. Welcome to you both. Alex, I'll start with you. How are Intel and HPE collaborating to optimize telco workloads?

Alex Quach, Intel (00:38):
Partnerships are really critical in the industry. Intel brings out generation and generation innovations in our processors and our CPUs, and it's critical that these CPUs are integrated into servers that HP brings to market with the right configurations. So there are different types of workload configurations, which requires specific server configurations so that we don't waste time and we have the right products to market, whether it's for AI use in Telco, whether it's for power efficiency, which are absolutely critical, and both have both aspects of these workloads we're supported in the Intel Zon six, which we announced last week, and with the Intel Zon six with E-courses, which we announced last year. They are both available through the HPE systems.

Amit Liebstein, HPE (01:30):
So in HP and Intel, we have many years of collaboration. We've gone through multiple generations. I think that the ecosystem is something that everybody's looking at today, and Intel and HPE are one of those examples where we're working for years already together building infrastructure, which is carrier grade, which is a low latency, high performance, driving the business forward, supporting our customers being the nets, with the collaborations with telco clouds and telco blueprints, and also their customers with total cost of ownership and other elements.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (02:09):
Ahed, how do Intel's Xeon processors enhance performance for workloads running on HPE platforms?

Amit Liebstein, HPE (02:15):
As I said before, when you're looking at the telco business, they need something which is, especially today, is very sustainable. Using the capabilities that the New Zealand six brings into the market, we are building infrastructure which will be more efficient, but will provide the telco grid that we need for powering the networks of the future.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (02:37):
So Alex, what future innovations can we expect from Intel and HPE to further accelerate workloads?

Alex Quach, Intel (02:44):
Well, within the core, a major focus, as I mentioned earlier, is about power efficiency, and so continued focus on providing more capacity on increasing power efficiency really starts with the processor, but it literally only starts there because there are so many things that can be done between Intel and HPE at the system level as well to drive these power efficiencies and capacity gains. The other thing that's really important to service providers is shortening the time to market for when the processor launches and the servers are available from HPE commercially in the marketplace. And once these servers are available, there's generally a fairly long validation cycle before the service providers can actually adopt these servers. And that's an area that's above and beyond all the collaboration that we've done. That's another area that we can really focus on shortening along with the telecom equipment manufacturers or the network equipment providers and the service providers.

Amit Liebstein, HPE (03:47):
Building on this one, what we're doing with Napps is building together with Intel, something that the NS will be taking into the market, which is power efficient using the next innovations from the current innovation of Intel we are building or we are investing in AIOps, which will be bringing again, a next level of innovation. And I think that's one of the parts that we did not touch yet is security. And I think the security is something that HP is investing a lot with. We saw it in the previous generation, will be the next level as well. The whole world is today looking for something which is sustainable and secure, and this is something that we're doing together with Intel.

Alex Quach, Intel (04:28):
I just wanted to add what Ahed was saying relative to security. I think traditionally security within the telco networks, particularly the core, has been driven by perimeter based security, so putting endpoint security capabilities. But increasingly as the core networks evolve, as we move towards a cloud native core, additional security measures and capabilities are going to be required. And there you have security capabilities that are embedded within the processors themselves that are then further unlocked with capabilities that we built within at the system level with HPE. So yeah, it's a really good point.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (05:04):
Amit, Alex, thank you both for being with us. Thank you.