Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has been heavily focused on Open RAN in the past couple of years, so it can be forgotten that its broader aim is to make all kinds of telecoms infrastructure more deployable and cost-effective, in order to extend high quality broadband to the next billion over all kinds of access and transport networks. One of its newest project groups, FiBR, covers fixed broadband, and its first major action was to issue an RFI (request for information) in July, for an open broadband network gateway (OpenBNG). The process is similar to one that has been run several times for Open RAN elements in recent years, with a group of operators setting out their requirements, and then identifying…