Highlights:

  • Amdocs selected as System Integrator to set TIP Community Lab in Southeast Asia and expand connectivity for Indonesia’s digital economy.
  • The new community lab will comprise an OpenRAN infrastructure.

A system integrator

Amdocs, the prominent provider of software and services, publicized that it has been chosen as a System Integrator to launch the first end-to-end Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Community Lab in Southeast Asia.

Making Indonesia 4.0 program

The teamwork of the participants and partners in the TIP Community Lab situated in Telkom University in Indonesia will help enhance connectivity in the country and support the ‘Making Indonesia 4.0’ program.

The experiments conducted in the lab will be based on testing and validating standards. Standards are based on open, disaggregated, and interoperable network technologies, thus boosting commercially viable solutions. The experiments will also focus on nurturing a diverse and robust ecosystem of innovative companies and expanding experts’ local talent pool.

The new community lab will comprise an OpenRAN infrastructure linked to a live, tier-1 MNO core network. Moreover, TIP Community Lab is anticipated to help MNOs to test and validate the impact of several innovative solutions for OpenRAN and disaggregated routers from a diverse set of providers in real-time.

Owing to the pandemic, most of the work of Community Lab is conducted remotely. The team uses advanced methodologies, several deployment and collaboration tools, and best-in-class practices to meet the current work demand.

Experts’ take

Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President – Media, Network, and Technology at Amdocs, commented: “We are delighted to be an integral part of TIP initiatives focused on bringing viable open, standards-based market solutions to service providers for a variety of environments, from urban to rural, and creating a better-connected society. Amdocs will play a key role in integrating and testing solutions across all areas of the network stack, including access, transport, core and services to ensure the community provides technology that delivers exceptional user experiences, high performance and infrastructure efficiencies for service providers.”

Attilio Zani, Executive Director at Telecom Infra Project (TIP), commented: “This project is a great example of how the TIP community, including service providers, technology providers, systems integrators, and policy makers are collaborating to build better networks at a quicker rate than ever before.”

He further added, “Amdocs has been a long-time partner in TIP initiatives, engaging in PlugFests and supporting lab and field trials of technologies like DCSG, and we welcome its expertise and participation as an integrator in our first TIP Community Lab in the region.”