The prpl Foundation, a specialist in embedded open source projects, has partnered with the Broadband Forum to build a reference platform for the WiFi Alliance Multi-AP Specification – the idea is that it can shortcut product development for Access Point and router manufacturers. The Prpl Foundation was set up to look after the MIPS architecture and has projects in Open WRT, the embedded Linux standard. The reference implementation would be open source and can be dropped lock stock and barrel into products, and would make passing EasyMesh certification fairly straightforward. Multi-AP WiFi uses two or more WiFi Access Points cooperating as a coordinated network, with software on them and in the cloud controlling them. We tried to download the WiFi…