Cloud-based analytics software for broadband and WiFi management is all the rage – slashing call center costs for ISPs and introducing features such as remote debugging. WiFi silicon supplier Quantenna Communications has now come out with such a product called ViSiON, which initially looks very similar to ASSIA’s CloudCheck which launched a few weeks ago. The essential difference between the two pieces of network analytics software is that Quantenna claims ViSiON is not positioned as a direct rival to network management software for monitoring long term deployments, such as CloudCheck – but to accelerate deployment times from the lab and soothe the teething process for a WiFi device’s first year in the field. Quantenna’s Head of Marketing Ambroise Popper told…