ASSIA, the company founded by ADSL inventor John Cioffi, has remerged from what it describes as stealth, and entered the market for WiFi management, with its first deal to sell its cloud-based CloudCheck platform to Telus of Canada. Cioffi and his team brought vectoring standards to market for broadband, laying the basis for G.fast, and then moved into products which cancelled out crosstalk in bundles of DSL lines, but also pushed a DSL management system which could dynamically alter broadband configurations to get the best out of broadband lines. Then it went on to offer an expert system for repairing broadband lines to shorten the workload for engineers. With AT&T as a first client, it managed to push Alcatel (now…