Wireless networks are experiencing tremendous traffic growth that is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Growth will primarily be driven by 4K/8K video, gaming services, 5G mobile networks, and bandwidth-hungry applications. Future networks will need more capacity and reliability as the IoT marketplace changes rapidly. These new connections will impact networks and force businesses of all sizes to upgrade their infrastructures to cope with the demand. However, the deployment is hampered by considerable investment in proprietary solutions from networking incumbents with tightly coupled hardware and software stacks that establish lock-in barriers with high switching costs.
Large-scale innovation is required to overcome resistance to new disaggregated approaches, eliminate barriers, and ensure a competitive and innovative market based on openness and interoperability. TanazaOS provides the networking market with a disaggregated software solution that allows full visibility and management of Wi-Fi networks, breaking incumbent lock-ins thanks to its vendor-agnostic capabilities.
This project is important to society for multiple reasons: 1) it lowers the costs of Wi-Fi connectivity (both capex/opex), making connectivity itself more affordable, hence democratic. 2) thanks to its novel software-only approach, it dramatically reduces distribution costs and marginal costs, increasing allocative efficiency 3) it extends the life of the hardware, promoting second uses and giving back the right-to-repair to users, fostering the transition from a linear to a circular economy 4) it contributes to the transition from a closed IT architecture to an open and interoperable architecture, actively contributing to open source projects. Overall, TanazaOS contributes to the EC goals to reach a future digital and sustainable society.
