Plume and Samsung Launch OpenSync Open Source Initiative - Seite 3

"Over the last few decades, the needs of the consumers shifted from Internet connectivity in order to be productive, to performance for uninterrupted entertainment and around the clock social engagement," said Fahri Diner, co-founder and CEO of Plume. "Driven by the influx of smart devices flowing into our homes, the next decade is all about personalization and cross-platform experiences," Diner continued. "As the scales move from millions of homes, to billions of people, to trillions of devices, we believe that carefully managed unlicensed spectrum and truly open frameworks become fundamental pre-requisites. This was the primary motivation behind our decision to open source our widely deployed innovations."

"For Liberty Global, a critical element of exploiting our broadband capabilities and delivering a superior connectivity experience to our customers is to ensure that we can continuously optimise Wi-Fi performance within a customer's home. It is also clear to us that in creating those capabilities we need to intelligently optimise performance across homes in close proximity to each another, which is common in our footprint," said Dan Hennessy, European CTO of Liberty Global. "This is why we've already used elements of the OpenSync framework to optimise Wi-Fi in millions of homes and look forward to investigating ways in which the initiative might be applied to other use cases that may benefit our customers."

"Our partnership with Plume has enabled Bell to further our global leadership in the cloud-based managed Wi-Fi solution. As the scope of our residential offerings expand beyond triple- or quad-play voice, video, data and mobile, we are excited to continue to work with Plume to demonstrate OpenSync at BBWF here in Berlin," said Shawn Omstead, Vice President, Residential Product Development and Management at Bell Canada. "We've been using various elements of the OpenSync framework to power our highly popular Whole Home Wi-Fi service launched earlier this year, and we're proud to be the first ISP to demonstrate an open source approach to supporting, managing and scaling future services."

"We've realized tremendous value from the RDK software stack in our advanced gateways," said Fraser Stirling, Senior Vice President Digital Home, Devices & AI at Comcast. "Plume's PML is already integrated with RDK and deployed within our footprint, and we look forward to incorporating additional