Telecom Infra Project

In this episode of The Signal Boost, TIP’s Chief Commercial Officer Vishal Mathur is joined by Abdel Bagegni, Head of OpenRAN Technology at TIP, and Michael Behan, Solutions Architect at Zinkworks, for a practical conversation on rApps, SMO/RIC readiness, and the future of AI-driven RAN automation.

Seattle is a city shaped by the same forces driving the next phase of telecom: cloud, AI, global connectivity, infrastructure, software, and scale. It is home to some of the world’s most influential technology companies, but it is also a working city built around ports, aviation, logistics, research, culture, and connection. That makes it a fitting place to bring the global telecom community together.

The following statement outlines MANTRA’s current interest in the upcoming IETF IVY Hackathon, the standardization gap it sees for IP domain inventory, and its continued alignment with TAPI as the target model for optical network inventory within the TIP MUST subgroup.