HPE and Cisco were going head-to-head at MWC with their private 5G announcements, and both majored on WiFi coexistence as differentiators. HPE’s unique selling points on this front fell into two main categories. One is a management interface that is more like those typically used for WiFi, giving enterprise IT managers efficient ways to carry out tasks such as user provisioning, without having the same level of control and depth that is needed by an MNO’s 5G core. The other is to enable interworking with WiFi, with support for features such as cross-network authentication and session handover, using the AirPass technology from HPE’s WiFi and edge division, Aruba. The private 5G software stack is available within an on-premise network-in-a-box, based…