What started as a response to DigiCert certificates approaching end-of-life became a community-wide transformation — spanning requirements gathering, protocol selection, vendor evaluation, tooling development, infrastructure buildout, and live migration of thousands of devices worldwide.

The second annual OpenLAN Global Summit capped three days of Wi-Fi World Congress USA 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The message from speakers, operators, and contributors was consistent throughout the day: OpenLAN has moved past the question of whether open and disaggregated networking can work at scale. It already is.

Q1 2026 has been a defining quarter for TIP. Two new Project Groups launched to tackle AI-driven networks and video performance at scale. Edgecore Networks and Pegatron earned TIP Bronze Badges. The ARIANE II consortium completed its UK DSIT-funded R&D project. And the OOPT community shipped GNPy 2.14.

TIP had a strong presence at Mobile World Congress 2026, convening industry leaders to advance open, disaggregated, and AI-ready networks. From the launch of the Data & AI Foundations Project Group to momentum around Open RAN, AI infrastructure, and Video QoE collaboration, the week highlighted growing industry engagement across the TIP ecosystem—setting the stage for continued progress leading into FYUZ 2026 in Seattle.

FYUZ 2025 landed several messages from the Telecom Operators leading the Open Optical & Packet Transport community at TIP.