OpenSync ubiquity certain as TIP pushes WiFi interoperability

It was fitting that the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) should make its presence felt in the absence of Mobile World Congress 2020 this week. Founded by Facebook and a consortium of telcos at the Barcelona mobile show four years ago, TIP has celebrated its birthday by implementing OpenSync, the open source software best known for powering adaptive WiFi architectures – as co-created by Samsung and Plume Design. The importance of WiFi to TIP was realized rather late in the day, only last year forming a dedicated project group designed to accelerate the development of WiFi technologies. TIP’s WiFi Infrastructure and Systems working group will use OpenSync in the software stacks of both TIP Access Point and the newer TIP Cloud…