Within the space of a few days, two of the WiFi world’s top cloud management specialists – Airties and Assia – have announced acquisition deals. Turkey’s Airties has agreed to a takeover by private equity firm Providence Partners, while US firm Assia (which stands for Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment) has sold its core assets to access networking company DZS. We believe now was a good time to sell for both parties, in a post-pandemic environment where the paramount importance of WiFi had been elevated by work from home experiences, while at the same time WiFi growth in the top economies is approaching saturation. We had always expected both Airties and Assia to fall to a tier 1…