Digital networks form the crucial foundation for connecting the world and serving people's livelihoods. Robust and inclusive communication infrastructure is key to bridging the global digital divide and supporting sustainable social development.

In 2025, a project team from the School conducted in-depth research and interviews with telecom operators and frontline engineers in multiple Southeast Asian and African countries. This effort precisely identified the practical needs and developmental pain points in infrastructure construction for telecom enterprises in the Global South. To tackle industry challenges like high construction costs and low planning efficiency, the team developed a dedicated network planning and design software: the Agentic Network Planner (ANP). The software has now been deployed on Amazon Web Services and is poised to officially launch services for global partners.

The software stably supported the full-process planning and design for 9,288 devices, running smoothly throughout with no lag. Memory usage was only about 1GB, and CPU utilization was as low as 0.1%. The lightweight architecture maintained high efficiency and stability even under multi-tasking, fully capable of supporting the practical needs of large-scale access network projects, bidding farewell to lag and crashes common with traditional tools.

9K+ Devices Running Stably

Infra Upload and Infra Edit

The Dashboard interface centrally manages project progress, teams, and permissions, while the Mainpage focuses on topology planning and path design. The interface division is clear, switching is smooth, and it is well-suited for team collaboration scenarios.

Dashboard-home and Mainpage Interface with 1K+ Devices

Planning Bar for Full-process Planning

Topology Visualization and View Management

One-click Report Generation and Version Management
 

The Future Ready Optical Networking Technologies (FRONT) R&D Center is committed to exploring theories and technologies related to high-speed, intelligent optical transmission, optical access, and optical switching, encompassing both software and hardware, for next-generation communication infrastructure. The center undertakes major national and local projects and has cultivated a significant number of outstanding professionals in related fields for the broader community.

Sun Telecom is one of the world's pioneers in providing fiber optic total solutions, serving as an innovator and leader in this specialized sector. Sun Telecom is serving customers from more than 140 countries and regions. The company's brand originated in Taiwan, China, in 1989.

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is a commemorative day established in 2006 by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) through the merger of World Telecommunication Day and World Information Society Day.

World Telecommunication Day was established in 1968 to commemorate the founding of the ITU and to highlight the role of telecommunications in national economic development and people's lives. World Information Society Day was established by a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in March 2006, following a call from the World Summit on the Information Society.

By closely linking telecommunications and the information society under a single global observance, the international community signifies the elevated status and noble responsibilities bestowed upon the telecommunications sector, recognizing its central and foundational role in building the information society.