Japan's KDDI this week announced that it is joining Telecom Infra Project (TIP) that was founded in 2016 by Facebook, Nokia, Intel, Deutsche Telekom, EE, and a number of other operators.
KDDI said it will launch a TIP Community Lab in Japan this year as a development and verification center to accelerate telecom innovations for TIP.
The TIP Community Lab will be a development and verification center for TIP members to openly discuss the configurations and specifications of the hardware and software used for (access, transport and core) features that constitute communication networks, and develop technologies efficiently and at low cost.Currently there are 12 TIP Community Labs in seven countries around world. KDDI's TIP Community Lab will be the 1st site in Japan.
In time for the launch of the TIP Community Lab, and together with KDDI Research, KDDI will also start evaluating transport facilities that will be based on disaggregated solutions.
KDDI will be co-leading a new sub-group within TIP's Open Optical Packet Transport project group (OOPT) in spring 2020. The new initiative will be called Disaggregated Open Routers (DOR) and will focus on open and disaggregation routing platforms for transport networks, and will drive technological development toward white-box equipment for backbone networks.
Aaron Berstein, Board Member, TIP
We are delighted that KDDI has joined TIP and will work together with the organization to establish the first TIP Community Lab in Japan-the [13th] lab in the world.
Luis Martin Garcia, TIP DCSG Co-lead
We look forward to collaborating with KDDI to define the specifications and use case of DOR, and are excited by the prospect of it being deployed in Japan.
