Pandaily reported that Purple Mountain Laboratories revealed AXP on October 16 in Nanjing, at the 10th Future Network Development Conference. The lab built it with China Mobile and two Jiangsu bodies, Jiangsu Future Network Group and the Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute. AXP links AI agents, which are programs that find and call one another. It runs on deterministic networking, where the network promises bounded, predictable delivery, unlike ordinary links that do their best. The developers call AXP an industry first, which is unverified. They say it registers up to a million agents and runs 100,000 at once.
It also schedules computing and network capacity together, switches over within seconds after a failure, and finds an agent by what it does in about 100 milliseconds. On CENI, a national test network, the team says addressing worked between sites over 4,000 kilometers apart, and task time fell by more than 20%. No baseline for that figure was given. The materials do not say which protocols AXP translates between, or whether MCP or A2A work with it. The meaning of AXP was not given. Testing with telecom operators, equipment makers and a large steel maker has started. No price or date was announced.
The design treats agent linking as a network problem as well as a software one. The protocol translation is the part buyers cannot yet judge. Before relying on the numbers, ask what the 20% is measured against, which protocols are supported, and whether the guarantees hold outside one controlled domain.