The agent interconnection platform AXP was officially launched on October 16, 2026, at the 10th Future Network Development Conference in Nanjing, Jiangsu, developed jointly by Purple Mountain Laboratories, China Mobile, Jiangsu Future Network Group and the Jiangsu Future Network Innovation Institute, as reported by CCTV News and Jiemian News on October 17. Billed as the industry's first agent interconnection platform built on a deterministic network, it does not try to make any single model smarter. It tackles what happens once agents multiply: they cannot find each other, connections are unstable, and collaboration falls out of sync.
Build the road first, then let agents work together
Over the past two years, agents have moved from demos into real business, but every framework and vendor has gone its own way: different registration methods, different communication protocols, different addressing schemes. When one agent needs to call an agent in another city or on another platform, engineers usually wire up the interfaces by hand, and link quality depends on public internet congestion. AXP pushes the problem down to the network layer. Built on CENI, China's national future network test facility, and on deterministic networking, it first makes latency and stability predictable, then handles agent registration, addressing and scheduling on top. A deterministic network is one that can offer guaranteed service levels within a network domain: how fast a connection is and how much it jitters are committed in advance, not best-effort.
The published numbers: million-scale registration, 4,000 km cross-domain addressing
According to the figures released by its developers, AXP supports registration and access for a million agents and 100,000 agents online at the same time, performs unified conversion between heterogeneous agent protocols, and deeply integrates scheduling across intelligent computing networks. On responsiveness, the platform claims second-level fault detection and switchover and semantic addressing responses within hundreds of milliseconds. Running on CENI, it has completed high-precision cross-domain agent addressing over distances beyond 4,000 kilometers, cutting end-to-end task execution time by more than 20 percent. Purple Mountain Laboratories has already begun multi-scenario joint testing and industrial validation with telecom operators, communications equipment makers and large steel manufacturers.
Why it matters, and why it is too early to conclude
Competition among agents is shifting from individual capability to group collaboration. When a task is split across several agents working in relay, the bottleneck moves from model inference to discovery, connection and scheduling. Protocols such as MCP address how an agent calls tools and peers; platforms like AXP aim one layer lower, at whether cross-domain connections stay stable and whether the right agent can be found accurately. The two sit at different layers and look more complementary than competing. That said, the figures announced this time come from the developers and joint tests, with no independent third-party retest under real production traffic yet, and a million registrations do not equal a million actively collaborating agents. Whether the platform becomes a de facto standard depends on how many vendors register their agents on it and how broad its protocol conversion coverage grows. For teams building multi-agent systems, AXP belongs on the technology radar for now, not in an immediate migration plan.
