On the bank of the River Liffey, as it races out to Dublin Harbor, the Convention Center Dublin played host to the Telecom Infra Project’s FYUZ 2025 conference. The tone was muted, with attendees keen to note it felt a lot quieter than the previous installment, and while the keynote stage had been moved to a less cavernous room, the messaging from the stage made it clear that data and AI were more of the focus for TIP moving forward. At one point in recent history, TIP felt almost synonymous with Open RAN – having grown from its foundational focus on opening up telco data center and interconnection specifications, all the way out to the RAN itself. But in Dublin,…