Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across Latin America will be able to obtain a quick and reliable diagnosis of their subscriber’s internet service issues due to an exciting partnership between the prpl Foundation and Beegol for Wi-Fi mesh. Millions of people across the world require a highly reliable broadband service for their homes, especially with the rise of remote working environments. Any connection problems such as performance degradation or outages will quickly erode customer satisfaction with their ISPs. In many cases it is difficult to locate the root source of an…
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prpl Foundation and CableLabs join forces to improve the Wi-Fi experience for users
The collaboration will accelerate the adoption of innovative Mobile Wi-Fi technology FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Nov 21, 2022 — The prpl Foundation, an open-source community dedicated to carrier-grade software for broadband consumer premise equipment has announced that CableLabs has joined the foundation to collaborate on the implementation of Mobile Wi-Fi technology to provide seamless Wi-Fi connectivity for mobile devices. The collaboration brings CableLabs’ Mobile Wi-Fi technology one step closer to full adoption as an open-source implementation in the prplMesh Wi-Fi software stack. The prplMesh software stack is a compliant open-source implementation of…
Read Moreprpl Mesh, the world’s first open-source Wi-Fi Mesh solution, adds features and quickens time to market for ISPs
Developed by prpl Foundation, prplMesh will provide carrier-grade interoperability by the end of 2022 Framingham, Massachusetts, April 19, 2022: Internet Service Providers (ISP)s will be able to deploy fully open-source Wi-Fi mesh networks, including standardized application programming interface (API)s enabling new services and features more quickly and with better interoperability than previously possible. The prpl Foundation and its service providers today announced a major acceleration effort to its prplMesh open-source Wi-Fi mesh software stack, which will be made carrier grade by the end of this year. The Wi-Fi mesh architecture…
Read Moreprpl Foundation Announces Release of prplOS v2, Planning Deployments in 2022
Las Vegas, January 11, 2022 – The prpl Foundation, an organization dedicated to open-source and open-APIs for carrier-grade CPE, today announced the completion of its 2021 acceleration effort with the official release of the prplOS v2 software platform. prplOS is the reference platform upon which prpl’s other platform-independent assets combine to form its prplWare open-source software suite. prplWare enables triple-play operators to deploy carrier-grade open-source CPE to serve as an Application/Service Delivery Platform for efficient distribution and management of innovative home services to their customers. The President of prpl Foundation,…
Read MoreAWS Joins Board of prpl Foundation to Standardize Orchestration of CPE Software with the Cloud
Framingham, Massachusetts, 05 January 2021: prpl Foundation today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined its board. The announcement aims to help standardize cloud-based application orchestration to manage the life cycles of containerized software components for next-generation customer-premises equipment (CPE) software stacks. This will enable service providers to more easily scale operations through the containerization of apps and services, moving away from monolithic firmware updates to a modularized approach that allows for simplified CPE application deployments and updates. AWS has joined the Board of prpl Foundation to collaborate with…
Read MoreQA Cafe and prpl Foundation join forces to expand automated self-testing for prplWare broadband gateways and Wi-Fi routers
Dover, N.H., USA – A new partnership between QA Cafe and prpl Foundation will expand the performance and security for broadband Wi-Fi routers and gateways with enhanced automated testing. QA Cafe’s CDRouter test solution for broadband, enterprise edge and Wi-Fi gateways provides repeatable, automated testing of prplWare open-source CPE software that can be easily replicated for self-testing by developers. The partnership will bring expanded self-testing to a broader community of developers and across more diverse devices and networks adopting the prplWare platform. “As end-user expectations continue to rise, the momentum…
Read Moreprpl Foundation previews its prplWare CPE Software at BBWF in Amsterdam, October 13th and 14th, 2021
SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 13, 2021 – The prpl Foundation, an organization dedicated to carrier-grade CPE software in open-source, will give the first ever public preview of its prplWare Broadband CPE stack at Broadband World Forum (BBWF), October 13th-14th 2021. The demo will show a real Home Gateway running prplWare with carrier-grade remote Management features (TR-069/TR-181), producing a complete topology map of its home network. prplWare’s Life-Cycle Management (LCM) feature demonstrates how operators can transform their Home Gateways into a true home application delivery platform. From the cloud, operators can…
Read Moreprpl Foundation Raises Ambition Thanks to Membership Contributions
prpl Foundation to deliver a major release of prplWare, the Open-Source carrier-grade Broadband CPE Platform by end of year 2021 Wakefield, Massachusetts, 01 September, 2021 – With the impetus and significant funding from more heavyweight operators, prpl Foundation accelerates delivery of the first carrier-grade Open-Source stack for Broadband CPE, prplWare, for release by year-end. prplWare is an Open-Source stack that harmonizes Broadband CPE interfaces with Open Standard APIs, serving as base implementation for Operator CPE firmware. This software stack drives the deployment of In-Home Services such as Wi-Fi Alliance’s EasyMesh…
Read MoreFon joins prpl Foundation to accelerate open-source innovation for the Digital Home and Carrier WiFi
Fon also joins the prpl Carrier Interest Group, prplWrt working group, and common API task group SANTA CLARA, CALIF – 26 October 2017 – The prpl Foundation, an open-source, community-driven, not-for-profit consortium with a focus enabling the security and interoperability of embedded devices for the smart society of the future, has today announced that Fon has joined the Foundation. As the world’s leading WiFi software company, Fon joins prpl to accelerate the development of a common, open-source-based software framework which will enable deployment of new carrier services for the digital…
Read MoreVodafone Joins prpl Foundation to Spur Open-Source Innovation in the Digital Home and Smart Gateways
Enrique Marti del Olmo, Vodafone Group’s Head of Fixed Devices, Connectivity & Security, appointed to the prpl Board of Directors SANTA CLARA, CALIF. – August 7, 2017 – The prpl Foundation, an open-source, community-driven consortium with a focus on enabling the security and interoperability of embedded devices for the smart society of the future, today announced Vodafone Group has joined the Foundation. As a leading multi-national telecommunications provider and Europe’s fastest-growing fixed broadband provider, Vodafone joins prpl with the intent to accelerate the harmonization of software platforms for in-home devices…
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