Plume and Samsung get closer to self-optimizing home WiFi

One of the pioneers of multi-AP home WiFi, Plume, has gone a step further in pushing for open frameworks in cloud-managed home networks, in partnership with Samsung. The two companies used this month’s Broadband World Forum event to launch OpenSync, an open system to support curation, delivery and management of home WiFi, which they hope to turn into an industry standard. Plume, designer of the ‘Adaptive WiFi’ system for self-optimizing home WLans, is now pooling intellectual property with Samsung to set up an open software initiative which looks to standardize the interface between the WiFi gateway and the cloud, in a cloud-managed, multi-access point (AP) environment. That would enable vendors to design residential managed WiFi systems using any chips, CPE…