The marketplace is the central repository to showcase the systems that has been tested through the TIP process, conforming to the O-RAN specifications.
Bronze badges demonstrate a vendor’s self-assessed compliance with TIP requirements, while silver and gold badges involve increasing levels of testing. The bronze, silver, and gold badge requirements are based on use cases emerging from TIP’s various project groups.
When vendors respond to the list of product requirements they get the bronze badge. This implies that they’re RFI ready and they’re on the TIP Exchange. This allows everybody to see what those results are. From an operator’s perspective, this helps them in terms of issuing RFIs. One way to look at this process is like TIP issuing a common RFI for all of the operators and making those results available.
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