AWS’s IoT Greengrass initiative has resurfaced, striking an integration deal with the prpl Foundation’s Life-Cycle Management (LCM) efforts, to enable easier deployment and management of software onto customer premises equipment (CPE). MaxLinear has demonstrated the capability, but is this enough to tempt WiFi CPE vendors into edgy new business models? Convergence is still a hot topic, and the Venn diagram between fixed and mobile operators is as blurry as ever. In a converged network, which fully merges fixed-line WiFi and cellular, there is a clear need to have increased network management capabilities at the edges of this network. Throw in the general need to increase monetization opportunities, and the compute footprint at the edge of the network becomes somewhat mission…