HPE has been pushing increasingly hard into the telco market in recent years, aiming to take advantage of operators’ migration to cloud-based platforms, and their interest in technologies like edge computing, in which the vendor has well-established offerings. Last week, the company unveiled a new family of as-a-service offerings designed to help MNOs to accelerate deployment of 5G and plot a simpler course towards cloud-native systems and the 5G core. The flagship of the launch was HPE 5G Core Stack, a cloud-native platform which will be offered on a pay-as-you-go, hosted basis from HPE’s cloud. The delivery and charging for the service will be via the vendor’s consumption-based IT model GreenLake and the core stack will be available globally from…