The biggest MWC 2025 announcements from AWS, Google, HPE and more

As AI places new demands on telecom networks, the world's largest networking, cloud, and telecom players came to Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona with a slew of new products, services, and partnerships.

Networking, cloud, and telecom vendors have descended onto Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona with products, services, and partnerships aimed at helping telecom service providers reimagine their architectures in light of major trends that are network-intensive, such as AI and augmented reality.

Tech giants, like Cisco Systems, took to the show to promote new services for its Agile Services Networking architecture that it unveiled in February. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, on the other hand, came ready with its networking hardware and a brand-new partnership with T-Mobile in which the wireless provider will offer HPE SMB wireless networking and switching products to their own customers.

Then there were the cloud players. Amazon Web Services promoted its new server and rack options for telecom providers, while Google Cloud highlighted the partnerships it’s forging with service providers to inject more automation into their networks, among other things. Solution provider giant NTT also got in on the action with a demonstration alongside Nokia aimed at applying in-network computing to meet data processing needs of 6G use cases.

With so many vendors at MWC that have their sights set on taking telecom to the next level, here’s a sampling of a handful of the telecom-related announcements, products and partnerships that came out of the show this week in Barcelona.

AWS Outposts servers and racks offering for telecoms

AWS has revealed new AWS Outposts racks for high throughput, network-intensive workloads, as well as new AWS Outposts servers designed for Cloud Radio Access Network (RAN) workloads. AWS Outposts, which hit the market in 2019, is an integrated hardware rack that can run native AWS or VMware environments that seamlessly connect to Amazon's public cloud.

The new server and rack offerings will let telecom service providers extend AWS infrastructure and services for premises-based network functions that require low latency, high throughput, and real-time performance. Both offerings will be generally available later this year, the tech giant said.

AWS also announced its preview of managed integrations for AWS IoT Device Management to help developers simplify cloud onboarding of IoT devices and unify device control across multiple brands and protocols, according to AWS.

Google Cloud's telecom partnerships

Google Cloud took to the annual event to share a handful of announcements and partnerships the tech giant has forged to inject more automation into, and strengthen, telecom networks.

Such partnerships include Bell Canada, which is using Google Cloud’s AI technologies to automate network issue detection and resolution within its new AIOps offering. The partnership with Google Cloud has boosted Bell Canada's software delivery productivity by 75 percent, while accelerating time to market, and reduce customer-reported issues by 25 percent. Germany-based Deutsche Telekom is also using Google Cloud's Gemini 2.0 to develop a network AI agent called RAN Guardian, which can analyze network behavior, detect performance issues, and implement corrective actions to improve network reliability and customer experiences, the companies said.

Amdocs, a telecom company that offers software and services for communications and media companies, has also launched a new Network AIOps solution in collaboration with Google Cloud to help 5G network providers automate complex network operations, enhance service reliability, and improve customer experiences, according to the companies.

Cisco’s new Agile Services Networking innovations

Cisco Systems launched Agile Services Networking, a new architecture for AI connectivity that will help service providers monetize the delivery of assured services and networking, last month at Cisco Live EMEA. At MWC 2025, the networking giant is already building on its "blueprint" for service providers for AI connectivity and related services with the introduction of two new features for visibility into both on-network and off-network connectivity.

The first is ThousandEyes Connected Devices, which extends the Cisco ThousandEyes platform to service providers with enhanced visibility across subscriber experiences, from home to off-network services for insight into last-mile network performance. The second feature is Provider Connectivity Assurance, which Cisco is calling an AI-powered "user experience" capability that can boost mobile service provider network performance. The feature gives telecoms real-time traffic insights and predictive demand intelligence to reduce congestion, maximize speed, and dynamically adjust spectrum usage, according to San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco.

HPE Aruba Networking’s new hardware and T-Mobile partnership

HPE Aruba came to the event to unveil new hardware options focused on helping telecom providers launch new services.

First up is the introduction of the HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325P network switch, featuring precision timing capabilities that improve synchronization for enterprises and public/private cellular networks for high-speed latency sensitive applications such as autonomous vehicles. The second is the expansion of the HPE ProLiant Gen12 series, first announced last month.

HPE Aruba also unveiled its partnership with T-Mobile in which the wireless provider will offer HPE SMB wireless networking and switching products to their own customers. The partnership will offer an advanced subscription solution that combines the T-Mobile Connected Workspace Program, including the Managed 5G Gateway service with HPE Networking Instant On Switch Series 1830 and HPE Networking Instant On Access Point AP21, according to HPE.

Nokia Agentic AI capabilities

Finland-based telecom equipment maker Nokia has revealed Agentic AI capabilities within its autonomous networks portfolio aimed at helping communication service providers automate, secure, and monetize their networks, according to Nokia.

The new Agentic AI capabilities build on the AI capabilities that are already embedded in Nokia’s autonomous networks portfolio. The latest features include several new security offerings, including the new AI-powered Threat Hunt Assistant that reduces threat dwell time from days to minutes by proactively detecting cybersecurity attacks. It also includes new generative AI features in analytics for engineers, and for digital operations for the automation and troubleshooting of tasks for service orchestration and fulfilment, the company said.

NTT, Nokia team on 6G use case demonstration

Global solution provider behemoth NTT and Japanese mobile phone operator NTT Docomo, in partnership with Nokia, jointly collaborated on a demonstration of an In-network Service Acceleration Platform (ISAP), which the companies said applies in-network computing to meet data processing needs of 6G use cases, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, immersive reality and advanced sensing.

NTT said that ISAP is a core component of its Inclusive Core Architecture, which has been designed to bring together computing and networking required for 6G and Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) use-cases, such as AI-integrated communication. The demonstration highlighted applying ISAP to the use case of AI analysis during video data transfer, which the companies aid improved performance from a 57 percent “correct answer rate” to 90 percent.