The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is gearing up for the next edition of its annual FYUZ conference, which brings together multiple open networking projects and stakeholders such as the O-RAN Alliance. The FYUZ 2023 agenda hints at some shifts in direction for the body, which was founded by Meta to drive availability of low-cost, common telecoms network platforms. Its agenda has broadened since its foundation. It has projects in open WiFi, transport and fixed networks as well as RAN. In the RAN, it was quickly drawn into the industry excitement about Open RAN, particularly the O-RAN Alliance platform. However, while O-RAN is often driven by the USA and by large RAN vendors, TIP has had a more European and operator-centric…