TIP Program in APAC: Indonesia

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 23:29:57, sysadmin, [category: 5g-community, category: openran-community]

In the^1st series webinar conducted by TIP with the theme “The benefit of openRAN in Indonesia” invites Mr. Muhammad Nurdin representative of Telecom Infra Project as a speaker.

What is TIP?

Telecom Infra Project is a global community established in 2016 the member is operators, vendors, SI and stakeholders who collaborate with each other to implement telecommunications technology that is open and high quality and aims to connect with many people. Currently in TIP has hundreds of members including in Indonesia.

Telecom Infra Projecet having several intity that is:

• Service Provider
• Technology Partners
• System Integration
• Connectivity Stakeholders

The TIP Process

Integration may benefit from economies of scale, that a collaborative approach makes possible. Steps taken in running the program in Telecom Infra Project are as follows:

• IDEATE: formulate ideas by collecting signal needs from the telecom industry obtained from the stakeholders involved, and this includes operators in it.

• DEFINE: Signal needs will be formulated in the form of common requirements that can be used as a reference in producing solutions that suit with needs of the industry.

• BUILD: build a solution from requirements that have been formulated, in this case TIP will cooperate with technology partners, vendors and SI to produce solutions that are open and not tied to a particular vendor.

• TEST: This technology will have features that can choose and are not bound by exclusive solutions. From the commercial side is expected to reduce the operator’s PCO.

• RELEASE: conducting trial activities that can be run in the lab or in the field later. In Indonesia TIP has provided a community lab located in Telkom University and has been officially inaugurated by Mr. Johnny G. Plate as Minister of Communication and Information Technology on December 17, 2020. The lab is the first in Southeast Asia and will be the place to test the open technology being developed. This lab will also be a forum for other activities such as the construction of SCM through training programs, R&D and so on.

• DEPLOY: Accelerate the implementation of such technology, in this case including openRAN in commersial site together with operators and technology partners.

Add TIP Project Group

TIP are building products across all network layers, and have 2 type of project group that community can get Involved

• Product Groups

• Solution Group

APAC Program Overview in Indonesia

TIP initiative is in line with the government aspiration and will provide a benefit to local industry and community. TIP programs and initiatives will be implemented in accordance with the aspirations stated by the government in relation to:

1. Human Resource Development
2. Infrastructure Construction
3. Cut through the red tape
4. Prioritize investment that create job
5. Economic transformation

TIP will support such aspiration in Indonesia with activities such as the following:

TIP has a special program for startup  called TEAC and events that will certainly help promote local industry players to regional and international markets.

Stakeholders & Action Plan

GSMA and TIP initiate a 5 pillar action plan –  based on enabling policy, clear demand from operators and a broad supply ecosystem. For programs in Indonesia TIP has had a long-term planning within 5 years based on the vision from time to time by carrying out several activities, including:

• OpenRAN testing in Telkom University Community Lab
• Operator commercial deployments in Rural & Urban Indonesia
• Build Awareness
• Build local skills and capacity, in 4G & 5G assembly & system integration
• TIP TEAC – Startup acceleration

This program is implemented with support by the government, industry such as GSMA, local operators (Telkomsel, Indosat Ooredoo, XL Axiata, Hutchinson, Smartfren and NET-1) and several local and international technology companies (Amdocs, Baicelss, ATSI, Parallel Wireless, Altiostrar, Comba, Mavenier, Kejora and Facebook). Through this collaboration is expected to help the development of more open telecommunication technology, and also help local industries to further develop regionally and internationally.