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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 of growth and change for the Telecom Infra Project. With a growing board, new executives, successful deployments, the launch of TIP Academy, and our new, industry-defining event, Fyuz! We’ve packed a lot into th

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 still being asked is, what does Fyuz mean? The Fyuz website simply explains it as “ A unique experience, combining technology with gastronomy that will stir your imagination. An event where leaders of open and di

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 upgrading of components, and is compatible with municipalities' procurement needs for vendor diversity and state-of-the-art technologies. Dublin City Council, Ireland, supported by Virgin Media Business, the city’s

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 disaggregated network technologies for wireless, fixed and satellite communications from access to transport and the core.  The inaugural event attracted over 1,350 attendees from sixty countries representing mob

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 private networks can be substantially transformed through technological innovation. Using a computer vision application as a driving use case, the group combined private 5G with edge compute for service components

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 bandwidth to devices, providing the capability to deliver metaverse experiences from a single 5G radio. However, there are currently no mMIMO whitebox solutions available with extensive end-to-end capabilities to satia

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 of industry professionals entrusted with the responsibility to accelerate the deployment of open and disaggregated network solutions. The first of many curricula is underway: TIP Academy Open RAN programme has now

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 looking to ‘open up’ networks from the RAN to the core, and even the WLAN, they are urgently looking for more efficient ways to test and validate new technologies to accelerate deployments and return on investm

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 governments’ objectives to ensure fast, secure, reliable and ubiquitous connectivity, TIP’s solutions play a key role in avoiding industry fragmentation and accelerating commercial deployments. As we approach th

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 (TIP) Fixed Broadband Project Group has established the Open Fixed Access Networks sub-group, a collaboration between major industry players including  Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone. Working together, this sub-group

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 East, which includes e& (formerly Etisalat Group), stc, Zain Group, Batelco, Mobily, Omantel and du, is driving the adoption of open and disaggregated technology across the region. In March this year , GCC7 collab

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. The DDBR solution, consisting of Drivenets Network Operating System (DNOS) software with UfiSpace and Edgecore Networks hardware, has given Turkcell the capability to scale the solution's capacity up to 192 Tbps in

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 Vodafone Group, commented on the appointment: “Kaniz brings a wealth of experience to our board and we are very pleased to have her play a role in shaping TIP’s progress. Her track record of pushing forward innovation s

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 immersive experiences that will require better network performance, for both fixed and mobile networks . For connectivity and technology service providers, as well as the broader industry,  the metaverse will create opportun

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 solutions, today announced a new milestone for its OpenWiFi products. Boingo Wireless has become the first Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Participant to adopt TIP OpenWiFi to enhance its Wi-Fi 6E network builds for commercial

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 Director at Vodafone Group, commented on the appointment: “MTN has been a great contributor since it joined TIP in 2016. From its leadership in several Project Groups and other TIP initiatives, including DCSG, MUST,

Author: TIP News 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 the need for an industry-led, operator and vendor neutral training service, designed to address a global skills and resource shortage in the telecom industry—creating a workforce which is more digitally fluent and better able to part

Author: TIP News 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. Following a detailed analysis of the vendor responses received as part of TIP’s Test & Validation process, the project group is excited to announce that products from Capgemini Engineering, Delta, DriveNets and UfiSpace meet

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