Join the Community Advancing
Telecom Infrastructure
TIP gives organizations a practical way to engage directly in the work shaping next-generation telecom infrastructure. Participants join operator-led and ecosystem-driven Project Groups, contribute to shared technical priorities, validate solutions through testing and real-world collaboration, and build relationships with the companies advancing open, disaggregated, and AI-enabled networks.
Through TIP, participants gain a neutral environment to turn industry challenges into actionable work, visible progress, and deployable outcomes.
Our Participation Tiers
TIP offers multiple participation paths so organizations can engage in the way that best fits their goals.
From broad Project Group access to specialized Research & Testing participation and OpenLAN-focused open source options, the tier structure helps participants find the right level of access, contribution, and collaboration across the TIP community.
Access to all Project Groups
Band | A | B | C | D | E | F |
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Annual Gross
Revenue (USD) | > $500M | $50M to $499.9M | $25M to $49.9M | $10M to $24.9M | $1M to $9.9M | ‹ $1M |
Base Annual
Dues (USD) | $50,000 | $40,000 | $25,000 | $15,000 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
Test Labs & Specialists | Academia & Government Agencies |
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$ 30,000 | $ 2,000 |
Open Source:
Implementer vs. Contributor Participation
Implementers are organizations that want to deploy, integrate, or commercialize the open-source technologies developed within OpenLAN. Implementers gain access to TIP’s collaboration tools, community discussions, and project outputs, enabling them to test and deploy solutions without taking on primary responsibility for core technical development.
Contributors are organizations that want to actively shape and build TIP’s open-source projects. Contributors play a direct role in developing code, specifications, architectures, and test artifacts, and participate fully in technical decision-making. This participation level includes full contribution rights, and carries additional opportunities related to governance, intellectual property, and contribution agreements.
In short:
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Choose Implementer if your focus is adoption and deployment.
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Choose Contributor if your organization plans to lead, build, and influence the technology itself.
Access to OpenLAN Only
Implementers | Contributors |
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$ 5,000 | $ 10,000 |
Feature/Right | Implementer | Contributor |
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Annual Dues | $5,000 | $10,000 |
Primary focus | Deploy and integrate technology | Contribute and develop technolgy |
Ability to influence technical direction | Limited | Full contributor rights |
Access to collaboration tools and community | Yes | Yes |
Permission to submit code/design to repositories | Typically limited | Yes |
Participation in Project Group meetings | Yes | Yes |
Eligible to propose new features and artifacts | Limited | Yes |
Participant Benefits
TIP participation gives companies a practical path to shape, test, and scale the technologies defining the future of telecom infrastructure. Participants gain direct access to operator-led priorities, global technical communities, collaborative project work, and real-world deployment insights across open, disaggregated, and AI-enabled networks.
Whether contributing technical expertise, validating new solutions, or building industry relationships, TIP helps participants move faster with the right partners at the table.
Access
Full access to our community platform, Hivebrite, where our Project Groups collaborate
Access to industry-prioritized TIP Product Release requirements, with the opportunity to input new requirements
Access to operators, vendors, and system integrators
Access to TIP Test & Certification framework for vendor product and multi-vendor systems, including certification test labs, specialist test suites, and tools
Access to our knowledge hub containing a listing of systems and products already tested, certified, and accepted at carrier grade levels
Growth
Opportunity to integrate vendor solutions into multi-vendor systems
Opportunity to offer commercial services & tools for system deployment, operations, and lifecycle management
Opportunity to put forward new areas of innovation for consideration
Business development gains through access to a wider global market
Efficiency gains in defining, building, and testing of commercially ready, multi-vendor open and disaggregated systems
Education
TIP Academy: learning and development platform to promote your products and case studies
Access to industry-neutral training courses, as well as certificates, in open and disaggregated network solutions
Free and discounted stimulus courses for your first 10 learners (some restrictions apply)
Uplift in employee learning and development
Engagement
Featured as a participating organization on TIP’s platforms
FYUZ: an award-winning industry event platform
Promotion of vendors and integrators that pass certification requirements on TIP global newsletter and social media
Uplift in channel-to-market, with lower risk of procurement and deployment
New Organizations Joining after the January Renewal Cycle
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If you are a new Organization signing up for TIP, we will prorate your invoice! For your initial participation year, your participation dues will be calculated to account for the months your organization will be active in TIP, and provide a credit for any months you missed.
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Once you are an active Organization within the TIP community, you will be invoiced for the full year's renewal dues on January 1 of each calendar year.
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We created a proration table to help new Organizations calculate their expected membership dues for their initial participation year. Click below to access the table, as well as our Participant FAQs. If you have any questions, please contact our Participation team.
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