Speaking at the recent Fierce WiFi Summit, Bill McFarland, CTO of US WiFi specialist Plume, said that the firm’s journey from cloud-based WiFi management system into a fully-fledged services platform is well underway. This was evidenced by the demands of existing customers Liberty Global and Breezeline (née Atlantic Broadband until rebranding one month ago). Plume has provided an entry point into modern multi-access point WiFi management for Liberty and Breezeline, but the next step for these two service providers is all about open source. Specifically OpenSync, which was developed by Plume Design under the PML image in 2015, before being provided to RDK Management in 2018 and carved out that same year as fully open sourced software. Since then, interest…