French set top and home gateway software specialist SoftAtHome, told us its next platform is all about WiFi when we talked this week at TV Connect. It came as something of a surprise. David Souhami, Director of Innovation at SoftAtHome made the point that “It’s no good trying to get 1 Gbps WiFi, if the device you want to connect to it ends up with just a 20 Mbps stream.” Many smart players have tried to cope with this intricate problem, but rarely a company which is such a friend to the operator. Today SoftAtHome’s shareholders are Orange, Etisalat and Swisscom – three operators which have taken its standardized software stack on board. The SoftAtHome sell is that it holds…