Of Facebook’s two major open hardware initiatives, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has gained most attention in the mobile industry because it is specific to telco networks. However, its older stablemate, the Open Compute Project (OCP), is also important to operators, as their cloud and network platforms converge, both in equipment and services terms. AT&T, the most aggressive of all the carriers about introducing open source norms to the closed telco supply chain, is putting an operator slant on the OCP’s work, by submitting its own specification for white box cell site gateway routers to the project. Both OCP and TIP aim to establish open, unified specifications for commoditized white box hardware, which will support cost-effective deployment and massive scalability…