Comcast has collaborated with the OpenSync community to produce what RDK Management is calling a unified WiFi software management component for residential gateways, access points (APs), and mesh extenders. The unified WiFi software – which will be become a default part of RDK-B – aims to provide advanced WiFi management and telemetry features to the open source RDK community. It is easy to read the announcement as RDK Management and its patrons striving to steal more of the WiFi management pie from EasyMesh, the WiFi Alliance standard. However, we should distinguish that OpenSync itself has not become a default component of the new software manager, nor has OpenSync become a default part of RDK-B. Rather, the OpenSync community and Comcast…