Facebook is extending its collaborative model for developing low-cost computing hardware to telecommunications gear as well, focusing on three areas — access, backhaul, and core and management.

A focus of the new project appears to be on the development and delivery of communications technologies in both developed and emerging markets.

The new Telecom Infra Project (TIP) aims to have operators, infrastructure providers, system integrators and other technology companies collaborate “on the development of new technologies and reimagine traditional approaches to building and deploying telecom network infrastructure,” wrote Jay Parikh, Facebook’s global head of engineering and infrastructure, in a post late Sunday.

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