The Facebook-driven Telecom Infra Project (TIP) held its third annual Summit this week, for the first time outside Silicon Valley. In a well-attended and lively gathering in London, the TIP community made several announcements of significance for those who seek to disaggregate the telecoms network, and therefore disrupt the established order of suppliers and drive down cost. There were new working groups, including one focused on edge compute; a rapprochement with the Linux Foundation’s Open RAN (ORAN) Alliance; and recognition of the vendors which had best responded to the first TIP-based RFIs (requests for information), issued earlier this year by the OpenRAN Project Group. The proceedings were heavily focused on the wireless network, and especially on the looming prospect of…