Purple Mountain Laboratories has launched the AXP platform, designed to facilitate communication between artificial intelligence (AI) agents, which operates based on deterministic networks. The presentation of this platform took place on October 16th at the Tenth Conference on Future Network Development in Nanjing. China Mobile, Jiangsu Future Network Group, and Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute were involved in its development.
The developers position AXP as the industry's first agent connection platform built on deterministic network principles, although this claim has not yet been independently verified. A deterministic network implies the network's ability to guarantee bounded and predictable traffic delivery within a specific area, unlike the best-effort behavior of standard internet connections.
AXP applies this concept to a growing number of software agents that need to locate and invoke each other across various organizations and regions. According to an official announcement, the platform is capable of registering up to one million agents and simultaneously supporting 100,000 active agents.
The platform performs joint planning of computational and network resources, handles transformations between different protocols used by heterogeneous agents, detects failures, and switches within seconds. Furthermore, it enables semantic addressing, allowing an agent to be located by its functionality in approximately one hundred milliseconds.
Operating on CENI, China's national large-scale experimental site for future networks, the team reported that AXP successfully implemented high-precision agent addressing across different domains over distances exceeding 4,000 kilometers and reduced end-to-end task execution time by more than 20%, although the baseline for this comparison was not specified.
The presented materials did not specify which agent protocols AXP transforms. Information regarding support for widely used open standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) or Agent2Agent (A2A) was not disclosed, nor was an explanation provided for the acronym AXP.
Purple Mountain Laboratories stated that it has begun joint testing and industrial verification with telecommunications operators, communication equipment manufacturers, and a major steel enterprise across multiple scenarios. The date of commercial availability or pricing policy has not been announced.
