"Athonet will put HPE at the forefront of a growing market", said HPE, quoting analyst house IDC that private cellular will be worth "more than" $1.6 billion by 2026 – just for the core networking piece. A new forecast from ABI Research, timed for MWC, says the "revenue opportunity" for private cellular will grow from $7 billion to over $96 billion by 2030; ABI bundles system integration into the mix, pegged at a whopping 50 percent of the forecast total.