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Author: TIP News Last month, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and its community celebrated the first anniversary of the Community Lab at TelkomU in Indonesia. To commemorate this milestone, the Government of Indonesia, TIP, and TelkomU hosted an event to reflect on the progress made to date and to cement the parties’ commitment to the Community Lab’s mission.  The event featured speakers from the Indonesian Government, academia and industry, including Johnny G Plate, Minister

Author: TIP News Since the launch of the TIP Open Optical & Packet Transport (OOPT) project group in 2016, it has been very exciting to see how the world’s major service providers, technology suppliers, system integrators and researchers have worked together towards building a more open, flexible and efficient network infrastructure. The OOPT community returned to OFC after two years of Covid-19 restrictions that made only virtual interactions possible. During that time, OOP

by TIP News The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is pleased to announce the Board of Directors has appointed Kristian Toivo as Executive Director. Kristian joins TIP following a 30-year career at Ericsson and most recently from Atos IT Services (Atos’ TMT - Telco, Media and Technology - industry vertical), where he was a Global Client Executive. Kristian’s appointment will commence on 1 June 2022.  Yago Tenorio, TIP’s Chairman commented on the appointment : “We are very excited to

Author: TIP News Middle East operators have opened the first regional community lab in collaboration with Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Intel, following the signing of the Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) MoU last year. The move will accelerate the implementation of Open RAN solutions in their existing telecom networks in order to support the early adoption and development of a robust regional ICT ecosystem.  Two new operators Batelco and Omantel have also signed the Op

Author: TIP News In order to make the most of their 5G investments, mobile operators must densify their urban networks. This takes a new way of thinking about the use of shared street assets for small cells and a new way of working with city governments.  Over the course of the last year, the TIP Connected City Infrastructure Solution Group, chaired by Dublin City Council, has brought together operators, infrastructure providers, city departments and other partners to collabo

by TIP News The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is pleased to announce that Orange has joined the organization’s Board of Directors. Laurent Leboucher, Group CTO and Senior Vice President, Orange Innovation Networks, will be the company’s representative on the Board.    Yago Tenorio, TIP’s Chairman & Fellow and Network Architecture Director at Vodafone commented on the appointment : “Orange has been a great champion for TIP and its mission over many years. They are leading effort

Report 10 Nov 2021 Internet connectivity and digital infrastructure play a vital economic and social role globally, helping to deliver education, health care and other key services. Despite real progress in recent years, connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is beset by challenges, including barriers to the deployment of digital infrastructure. Much remains to be done to enable SSA to catch up with global connectivity. Expanding the delivery of accessible and affordable in

White Paper 15 Sept 2021 This ABI Research white paper focuses on TIP´s practical and unique community-based approach to the productization of telecom network technology, discussing Open RAN specifically. After an initial overview on market trends and the evolution of the supply chain, the paper moves into describing the role and activities of the OpenRAN Project Group. It underscores how releases are a key aspect of the TIP process , improving each project group’s work and

Report 21 July 2021 Download white paper Download slide deck In India, mobile operators have been actively exploring the use of open and disaggregated technologies in their networks, and have also started to develop in-house solutions that can be exported globally (if and when proven) and scale beyond India to the world. The government of India is also taking steps to strengthen local manufacturing capabilities. This involves incentivising large global players to set up produ

Perspective 15 June 2021 Download white paper Download slide deck MNOs are looking to OpenRAN to take control of the 5G network by transitioning to a flexible and scalable architecture . To truly realize its benefits, MNOs are also rethinking how they control, operate, and manage the RAN. Extreme network automation is at the heart of this approach, with the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) in turn proving to be foundational to achieve this extreme automation and provide fin

White paper and webinar Feb 2021 Download white paper Download slide deck The Outlook for Open and Disaggregated Packet and Optical Networks Open and disaggregated transport networks are advancing rapidly and operator plans are starting to solidify, with the Telecom Infra Project playing a significant catalyst role in this ecosystem. To gain the latest insights on this critical topic, Heavy Reading surveyed network operators globally to get their views and plans on the key pa