by toolsadmin | Oct 4, 2023
by TIP News Extended Reality (XR) has taken a step forward in becoming a viable communications tool as industry leaders Telefonica, Meta, Mavenir, and Oracle announce a new capability called “Bring Your Own Number” (BYON) for XR devices. This cutting-edge...
by toolsadmin | Oct 3, 2023
by TIP News During Fyuz2022, the community discussed some of the key aspects of the OpenRAN industry and the importance of an industry-led approach to accelerate the adoption of disaggregated networks in general and OpenRAN in particular; a lot has happened since...
by toolsadmin | Oct 3, 2023
by TIP News Throughout 2022 and the first half of 2023, OpenRAN PG underwent a strategic shift in its solutions subgroups. Their primary focus shifted towards crafting high-quality documents, specifically blueprints and test plans. These documents aimed to offer...
by toolsadmin | Sep 28, 2023
by TIP News The impact of TIP (Telecom Infra Project) on the transformation of optical transport networks is unmistakable. The TIP MUST (Mandatory Use-cases for SDN Transport) and MANTRA subgroups (Metaverse-ready Architectures for Transport Networks) are at the...
by toolsadmin | Sep 26, 2023
by TIP News As we are approaching Fyuz23 and we reflect on our journey, our community’s innovation and collective spirit continue to drive us forward. Thank you for being the cornerstone of TIP’s success. Participants can access exclusive benefits such as...
by toolsadmin | Sep 21, 2023
by TIP News Between the 9-11th October 2023, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) will be hosting the second edition of Fyuz at the Palacio Municipal in Madrid, Spain. Fyuz is where the future of connectivity comes to take root, grow and flourish. This year, the event...
by toolsadmin | Sep 19, 2023
by TIP News The flexible and scalable architecture enabled by Open RAN can only be truly realized with revisiting how the RAN is managed and operated. The RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) will play a crucial role in supporting increased levels of network automation,...
by toolsadmin | Sep 14, 2023
by TIP News Project ARIANE (Accelerating RAN Intelligence across Network Ecosystems) is proud to be one of the Department of Science Innovation & Technology (DSIT) Open Networks Ecosystem (ONE) competition winners with an objective to further the UK cause for RAN...
by toolsadmin | Aug 30, 2023
by TIP News TIP’s OOPT MUST Subgroup is pleased to announce that Infinera’s Open Wave Manager v2.0 has been awarded with the TIP MUST Optical SDN Controller Southbound Interface Bronze Badge, making it the first TIP Requirements Compliant product of its kind . The...
by toolsadmin | Aug 29, 2023
by TIP News Supersport Park Cricket Stadium in South Africa has implemented a cutting-edge open WiFi network infrastructure from the Telecom Infra Project’s (TIP’s) OpenLAN Project Group, to significantly enhance the spectator experience and increase commercial...
by toolsadmin | Aug 23, 2023
by TIP News Introduction In the dynamic telecommunications landscape, the need for efficient and reliable optical networks has never been greater. As operators struggle to meet increasing bandwidth demands, they must optimize network designs and performance. Enter...
by toolsadmin | Jul 6, 2023
by TIP News Background We are using wireless technology more and more, however, pretty soon after the signals have left the radio interface and the communication is about to traverse the network, optical transmission technology is used. To bridge longer distances...
by toolsadmin | Jun 29, 2023
by TIP News In 2022, TIP’s innovation extended into satellite and other non-terrestrial access, with the progress of the TIP Non-Terrestrial Connectivity Solutions (NTCS) Project Group. Satellite operators and system vendors were busy exploring new ways to leverage...
by toolsadmin | Jun 20, 2023
by TIP News New State-of-the-Art OpenWiFi Lab Debuts at CableLabs Headquarters to Support Tests, Trials, and Deployments of Open and Disaggregated Wi-Fi Solutions for MSOs Louisville, CO June 21, 2023—CableLabs, the leading innovation and R&D lab for the cable...
by toolsadmin | Jun 5, 2023
by TIP News When an Open RAN solution is integrated from a set of individual products and components, it has to be tested as a working system with regards to key functionality, performance, operability and security. Certification comprises the successful passing of...
by toolsadmin | May 31, 2023
by TIP News In early Q2 2022, engineers from Meta, Keysight, Dell, Anritsu and EANTC voluntarily came together under the Test & Integration Project Group to create a focus group intent on creating a first-of-its-kind Open Test Automation Use Case document....
by toolsadmin | May 11, 2023
by TIP News ThinkWiFi and Mawingu Partner to Provide Disaggregated, Open-Source Wi-Fi Network Funded Through A Digital Advertising Monetization Model Kenya, May 11, 2022—ThinkWiFi, an Africa-based ad-tech free WiFi internet service provider, and Mawingu, an internet...
by toolsadmin | Mar 22, 2023
by TIP News TIP was founded in 2016 with the intention of improving global connectivity as well as choices. The choices here include vendors, solution providers, technologies and so much more. In the beginning it was a small group of services providers and other...
by toolsadmin | Mar 16, 2023
by TIP News As Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and O-RAN Alliance forge a closer working relationship, it is important to explain the differences between these two organizations to anyone who may still be confused. David Hutton, Chief Engineer at TIP explained it nicely...
by toolsadmin | Feb 16, 2023
by TIP News Pakistan’s Top Service Provider Building Open and Disaggregated Wi-Fi and Transport Networks based on TIP’s technologies across Communications Footprint Karachi, Pakistan, February 16, 2023 — Multinet, Pakistan’s business communications company of choice,...
by toolsadmin | Feb 8, 2023
With the goal to foster OpenRAN orchestration and management automation (ROMA) product & solution maturity, a functional testbed, consisting of Foxconn’s RU, Capgemini’s CU/DU, and 5GC (both running on Dell servers), has been set up in the TIP...
by toolsadmin | Feb 8, 2023
2022 was a strong year for RAN innovation. Operators and vendors were busy exploring new ways to utilise software (AI and ML) to analyse and leverage data, across what has always been a hardware-centric and functional part of the network. Perhaps no surprise then that...
by toolsadmin | Feb 1, 2023
by TIP News TIP thanks the NTIA for the opportunity to provide comments on how it can structure and administer grants from its $1.5 billion Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (“Wireless Innovation Fund” or “WIF”) to best accelerate the adoption of open...
by toolsadmin | Jan 25, 2023
by TIP News India’s Leading Service Provider Continues to Innovate By Building Disaggregated, Open-Source Networks DELHI, India, January 31, 2022—Spectra, India’s leading managed service provider, today announced that it has expanded the commercial deployment of...
by toolsadmin | Jan 16, 2023
When TIP was founded in 2016, it was founded on three simple principles. The first was to act as a facilitator for global industry to enable an ecosystem of vendors, mobile operators, system integrators, regulators, etc. to develop, test and deploy open and...
by toolsadmin | Jan 4, 2023
At Fyuz 2022, ‘Fixed Broadband and Transport – State of the Union’ breakout session provided a great summary of the developments and progress in the OOPT group. In the opening keynote, Diego Marí Moretón, Manager, Connectivity Technologies & Ecosystems at...
by toolsadmin | Dec 19, 2022
by TIP News The festive season is often a great time for reflection, looking back on the year that has been and the changes we have experienced, as well as being a great time to look ahead to the challenges and adventures of the year to come. 2022 was certainly a year...
by toolsadmin | Nov 22, 2022
by TIP News Fyuz delivered what it promised, a unique experience for industry leaders to gather and discuss recipes for success. This was nicely complemented by the food, designed to stimulate the senses into imagining endless possibilities. However a question we are...
by toolsadmin | Nov 21, 2022
by TIP News Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenWiFi is ideal for publicly sponsored urban Wi-Fi deployments. It allows the selection of the most appropriate solution based on use case rather than a single vendor’s products, facilitates the independent replacement and...
by toolsadmin | Nov 17, 2022
by TIP News From the 25th to 27th October 2022 the Telecom Infra Project held its first edition of Fyuz at the IFEMA Palacio Municipal in Madrid, Spain. Fyuz, a unique experience combining gastronomy with technology, is the only event to cover all aspects of open and...
by toolsadmin | Nov 8, 2022
Report Open RAN Orchestration & Management Automation Nov 2022 Interest in Open RAN continues to grow, especially now that industry pioneers are reporting positive progress from their initiatives and moving ahead with wider rollout plans. Confidence has also been...
by toolsadmin | Nov 7, 2022
by TIP News Private 5G networks are on the rise but many deployments today are custom projects that are expensive to implement and maintain. The TIP 5G Private Networks solution group, chaired by Telefonica, recently completed a trial that shows how the economics of...
by toolsadmin | Oct 27, 2022
by TIP News Cellular networks require more capacity and intelligence to support the metaverse and enhanced reality applications for both consumers and businesses. Massive MIMO (mMIMO) can deliver more capacity and thanks to beamforming capabilities, concentrate...
by toolsadmin | Oct 26, 2022
by TIP News Since its launch in May 2022, the TIP Academy, in collaboration with Accenture, has been growing from strength to strength. Designed to complement other academies, TIP Academy taps into the practical learnings from the TIP ecosystem to uplevel the skills...
by toolsadmin | Oct 26, 2022
by TIP News Companies across the telecom ecosystem are rapidly adopting open and disaggregated products and solutions. This has led to a spike in Open RAN revenues, which have ‘crushed’ expectations in the first half of 2022 according to Dell’Oro Group. With operators...
by toolsadmin | Oct 25, 2022
by TIP News The OpenRAN Project Group has accelerated its journey to productization, bringing the ecosystem together to take a holistic approach towards building a next generation RAN that offers greater choice, innovation and improved economics to MNOs. In line with...
by toolsadmin | Oct 25, 2022
by TIP News Against the backdrop of continued traffic growth driven by consumer demand for immersive online experiences, the widespread availability of fast, reliable, and cost-effective connectivity services has never been more important. The Telecom Infra Project...
by toolsadmin | Oct 22, 2022
Report Open RAN for Brownfield Operators Challenges and Opportunities Oct 2022 The middle eastern telecom operators known as the GCC7 (E&, STC, Du, Zain, Batelco, Omantel, Mobily) have collaborated on a joint White Paper to describe their thoughts and objectives...
by toolsadmin | Oct 22, 2022
by TIP News The Middle East is seeing strong momentum behind Open RAN, driven at an operator and government level, with the ambition to lower costs and deliver more choice and innovation in the way 5G networks are built. GCC7, a group of operators across the Middle...
by toolsadmin | Oct 21, 2022
by TIP News Turkcell, a leading fixed and mobile services provider in Turkey, announced today that it has successfully deployed a Disaggregated Distributed Backbone Router (DDBR) Internet Gateway solution in its production network, the first such deployment in TIP....
by toolsadmin | Oct 20, 2022
by TIP News The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is pleased to announce that Kaniz Mahdi, SVP Technology Architecture and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom has joined its Board of Directors. Yago Tenorio, Chairman of TIP and Fellow and Network Architecture Director at...
by toolsadmin | Oct 19, 2022
by TIP News TIP (Telecom Infra Project) is pleased to announce a new project group that addresses one of the central topics in today’s telecommunications industry, metaverse-ready networks. The metaverse aims to transform how people interact by delivering...
by toolsadmin | Oct 11, 2022
by TIP News Boingo Wireless expands its converged technology portfolio with new flexible Wi-Fi architecture to streamline network deployments The Telecom Infra Project (TIP), a global community of companies and organizations driving wireless infrastructure...
by toolsadmin | Oct 10, 2022
by TIP News The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is pleased to announce that Amith Maharaj, Group Technology Executive, from MTN Group has joined its Board of Directors as the company’s representative. Yago Tenorio, Chairman of TIP and Fellow and Network Architecture...
by toolsadmin | May 3, 2022
Author: TIP News TweetLinkedIn The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) announced today that it has launched a new platform for upskilling the telecoms industry – ‘TIP Academy’. The platform was developed in collaboration with Accenture. TIP participants have expressed...
by toolsadmin | Apr 21, 2022
Author: TIP News TweetLinkedIn The OOPT project group has awarded Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Requirements Compliant Ribbons to Capgemini Engineering, Delta Electronics Inc., DriveNets and UfiSpace that accredit their solution readiness against the DDBR Requirements....
by toolsadmin | Mar 30, 2022
Author: TIP News TweetLinkedIn 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...
by toolsadmin | Mar 10, 2022
Author: TIP News TweetLinkedIn 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...
by toolsadmin | Mar 10, 2022
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,...
by toolsadmin | Mar 2, 2022
Author: TIP News TweetLinkedIn 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...