In its latest progress update, Telecom Infra Project (TIP) says it has now helped to facilitate 35 Open RAN trials and deployments, by 29 operators in 20 countries. In addition, since its formation in 2016, the group has added 42 Open RAN products to the work of its broad-ranging Open RAN Project Group (which brings together six working groups). These products have been submitted by 16 vendors to be available for testing or purchasing via TIP’s marketplace. They include most of the elements of a disaggregated Open RAN including centralized units (CU), distributed units (DU) and radio units (RU), plus integrated small cells and outdoor macro equipment. The vendors involved are Altiostar, Baicells, Comba, Dell, Fujitsu, Mavenir, MTI Mobile, NEC,…