Adoption of the new WiFi Alliance standard for multi-access point (AP) mesh, branded EasyMesh, is already a key theme in the unlicensed wireless sector, less than six months after the specification’s release. EasyMesh was developed by the Alliance to encourage interoperability between multi-AP hardware and software from different vendors, in a scenario where multiple APs are coordinated by cloud-based software. A certification program is already underway. However, EasyMesh has some catching up to do, if it is to achieve the mass adoption a standard requires for success – it is still considered to be a few years behind proprietary mesh architectures from the likes of AirTies and Comcast. It may narrow the gap with them in time, but in the…