This week the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has announced TIP OpenWiFi
It’s a cloud-first open source effort that TIP claims will open up Wi-Fi to other partners and users
And it says it’s already got broad buy-in
If disaggregation is good for the RAN then it should be equally good for Wi-Fi. So the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has announced TIP OpenWiFi. An initiative designed to assemble a “fully disaggregated WiFi system that includes Access Point hardware, an open-source access point network operating system, and a software development kit (SDK) to build Cloud native Wi-Fi Controller software for Service Providers and Enterprises.
The OpenWiFi community already counts more than 100 participants of various company types. (Getty Images)
Having progressed on efforts to disaggregate infrastructure components in other telecom segments, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is setting its sights on disaggregating Wi-Fi.
TIP this week officially unveiled OpenWiFi Release 1.0, which the group described in a statement as a “community-developed, fully disaggregated Wi-Fi system, including Access Point (AP) hardware, an open-source AP network operating system (NOS) and an SDK to build Cloud native Wi-Fi Controller software for Service Providers and Enterprises.”
The widely-anticipated announcement came as expected one week after TIP said it would adopt the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s OpenRoaming standard as a key component of its solution stack. The group said disaggregated Wi-Fi will lead to benefits such as lower barriers to entry to develop enterprise-grade Wi-Fi solutions; accelerated innovation, enabling easi
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