Under the cover of darkness, about a month ago, a new WiFi standard was released by the Broadband Forum unbeknown to many, after a couple of years in development with Vodafone as the key driving financial and promotional force. Called Broadband QED (Quality of Experience Delivered), the standard is part of the Broadband Forum’s TR-452 and is defined as a new network quality metric that captures variability in network quality – in such a way that relates directly to application outcome and end user QoE. Faultline’s initial reaction upon reading the recently released whitepaper, published by Norwegian machine learning start-up Domos, was to decide that QED is essentially an amalgamation of QoE and QoS – two differing ways of measuring…