AGENDA

Join us for the opening of Fyuz23 by TIP’s Chairman Yago Tenorio and Executive Director Kristian Toivo. The speakers will reflect on the progress since last year’s Fyuz23, and share their vision for the future of open and disaggregated technologies, and how TIP is positioned to make that happen.

Yago will give an update on the progress of Open RAN at Vodafone, and will reflect on how the industry is coming together to create the scale for broad commercial deployment.

Sadayuki Abeta from Japan’s largest Mobile Operator NTT DOCOMO, will share their success rolling out a multi-vendor brownfield Open RAN network as well as their related international initiative—a new Open RAN service called OREX (recently deployed in Japan as a world’s first GPU-accelerated 5G network together with Fujitsu, NVIDIA and Wind River) that can help accelerate Open RAN deployments for Mobile Operators around the world.

Ecosystem cooperation across the globe is essential for Open RAN to industrialize and reach scale. Join TIP’s Chairman Yago Tenorio, Fellow & Network Architecture Director from Vodafone (Europe) as he conducts a fireside chat covering essential Open RAN challenges and opportunities with Rob Soni, VP of RAN Technology at AT&T (USA) and Sadayuki Abeta, VP & GM of RAN Development of NTT Docomo (Japan).

Join us to hear from the leader of  Vodafone UK’s network about the status and plans regarding Europe’s leading Open RAN deployment. Following a successful initial commercial deployment in the South West of England, Vodafone has now announced a large-scale deployment of 2500 sites to bring Open RAN at scale to the UK market.

Andrea will share his experiences from the work done so far in introducing Open RAN in the demanding network environment in the UK and explain more about the readiness and plans for OpenRAN to be deployed at scale.

Join us to hear about the status and plans regarding one of the world’s leading  Open RAN deployments, at Dish in the USA.

The speakers will share their experiences from integrating, testing, deploying and operating Open RAN solutions that fulfill the requirements for the nationwide deployment at Dish.

Join us to hear about the process and experiences that Spectra, a commercial service provider based in India, has had with OpenWiFi, and their experiences thus far through numerous deployments since January 2023. 

The speakers will share their experiences from discovering OpenWiFi and the reasons why they decided to shift away from their incumbent supplier, to how they went about designing, integrating, testing, deploying and operating OpenWiFi-based  solutions that fulfill the requirements for production network operations.

The telecommunications industry has utilised a community approach to develop common industry standards and drive product implementations through to commercial deployment on a global scale.  Join this session to understand how the power of the community can be leveraged to accelerate commercial deployments and lifecycle management of open and disaggregated network infrastructure.

Join us to hear from leading industry stakeholders what is left to do in order to accelerate deployment of Open RAN at scale. Baseline specifications are available and operators have aligned on priorities on functionality, while vendors and integrators have engaged in trials and early deployments across the globe. In this session we will discuss the status of Open RAN and the readiness for large scale deployments, considering both technical and operational aspects.

Join us to hear from leading industry AI experts on how AI will help Mobile Network Operators and potentially transform telecom networks. In this session we will discuss the status of AI, its applicability to telecoms, and how telecom networks should be designed with AI in mind. The panelists are representing leading vendors and will  consider both technical, business and strategic aspects deploying AI for telecoms.

A recap and outlook of FiBr, showcasing industry momentum towards fixed broadband disaggregation and highlighting the progress made during the past 12 - 24 months.

14:30 - 14:45 - Sponsor Keynote - IP Infusion

14:45 - 15:00 - Fixed Broadband - State of the Union

15:00 - 15:25 - Fixed Access Networks - A Complex Puzzle

15:25 - 15:55 - Integrating BNG Models in Production Networks

15:55 - 16:00 - Wrap up

Open RAN is now a reality but how can TIP and the broader industry work together to accelerate deployments from operators globally? What are the challenges linked to business and operational transformation from adopting Open RAN? What role can industry partners, such as SIs, play in supporting and enabling the translation?

In the opening session of the Open RAN Summit, we will take a look back on a pivotal year for this breakthrough technology and discuss what needs to be done in 2024 for momentum to continue, including defining what success looks like not just in terms of more deployments, but also in terms of new products and solutions coming to market to support continued Open RAN adoption from service providers around the world.

14:30 - 14:35 - Moderator Introduction

14:35 - 14:45 - Panel: Latest Industry Updates

14:45 - 15:20 - Panel: Setting Targets for Success

15:20 - 16:00 - Presentation

OpenLAN, formerly known as Open Converged Wireless, has been building on its success and momentum and is expanding its working groups from the initial OpenWiFi group after a recharter and renaming. These groups are producing products, gathering requirements and expanding into new and different areas, including additional vertical markets, deployment scaling and incorporating the latest Wi-Fi standards and thinking. Join this session to recap where we've come from, what we are working on and exciting new areas we plan to innovate and improve in. Also covered will be a view on how TIP testing and validation is applicable to OpenLAN and how it brings value to the group and the ecosystem as a whole.

Overview and History

Architecture

Where We Are Now

Technical Roadmap

Proposed Badging and Value of TIP Exchange

How OpenLAN Can Fit into TIP Badging

Outlook for OpenLAN Growth & Key Developments

This is your opportunity to find out how to leverage the work Tier 1 service providers have done virtualizing their networks over the past 3 years, so you don’t have to start from scratch. Join representatives from Dell, Intel, and Wind River to learn about proven solutions you can use to accelerate your Open RAN deployment, and your ability to offer services in a more flexible and cost-effective way.

India will be the powerhouse for the world in driving Open Network Solutions; and for Open RAN, unlock the opportunity to truly scale it in a 5G world and be ready for a 6G standard.

It has the talent, the commitment from Government and Industry, the right mix of large and small players, and the ability to build solutions that are cost effective, certifiable, deployable and operational for tier 1 and tier 2 players around the world.

On the back of TIP’s 2 year Built in India drive, this breakout explores in panel 3 things:

14:30 - 15:00 - Open Wi-Fi : India as a Model for Emerging Markets

15:00 - 15:30 - Investing & Building Open RAN with a View Towards 6G for India and the World

15:30 - 16:00 - Leveraging India’s Scale and Competence Software Services & Technology to Globalise Open RAN Solutions

The TIP Non-Terrestrial Connectivity Solutions (NTCS) Project Group is innovating in
the unification of diverse LEO, MEO, and GEO satellite networks with HAPS and
terrestrial networks. Leaders will discuss progress, plans, and the value of this work to
their organizations and the industry.

16:30 - 16:35 - Panel Introduction

16:35 - 16:40 - NTCS Introduction

16:40 - 17:20 - Panelist Presentations

17:20 - 17:50 - Panel Questions

17:50 - 17:55 - Audience Q&A

17:55 - 18:00 - Wrap Up

Taking a critical look at Open RAN, this session will gather experts to debate and discuss the pros and cons of Open RAN, what are some of the key challenges that need to be overcome, from technology to business processes, what are the proof points that can build confidence in these technologies, and what is fair criticism vs. faux outrage.

16:30 - 17:15 - Challenging Open RAN’s boldest claims

17:15 - 18:00 - Will multi vendor Open RAN really take off?

The OpenWiFi working group has been shipping production-grade software for many releases; intrepid OEM's and ODM's have been building on this reliable and feature-rich base, and deploying to customers who are reaping the benefits of the complete solution. These customers and OEM's / ODM's are producing and deploying products, gathering requirements and expanding OpenWiFi applications and vertical markets, including MDU's, hospitality and commercial enterprise. Join this session to get an honest and direct view on how open and disaggregated networking technologies work, and more importantly, don't work. Also understand how TIP badging, testing and validation can help customers and the service provider ecosystem in improving connectivity using the worlds most popular end-user networking technology.

MSP Deployment #1 - Spectra

MSP Deployment #2 - Ask4

MSP Deployment #3 - HFCL

Panel of MSPs and OpenLAN Suppliers -Q&A informed by earlier sessions

Product-oriented session focus on IP Transport technology stream.

Targeted topics:

• OOPT products penetration in the market: commercial deployments, successful case studies.
• New product areas on development by TIP: T&V awards and ongoing activities.
• New market trends: potential areas to be developed by OOPT.
• Disaggregated market challenges, operational challenges, and upskilling needs (TIP Academy).

16:30 - 16:35 - Moderator Intro

16:35 - 16:45 - DOR SG Keynote

16:45 - 16:55 - Sustainable Networks via Open Transport

16:55 - 17:15 - Fireside chat with VF and TEF

17:15 - 17:25 - Presentation: AI Network Cloud

17:25 - 17:35 - Presentation: AI Networking Solutions

17:35 - 18:00 - Panel: New product areas on development by DOR (DAR, DDBR-PE) progress and developments in DOR