By Claus Hetting, WiFi NOW CEO & Chairman
Smart home Wi-Fi service delivery platforms have for a long time been a hot mess of competing (and complementary) standards but now startup Righ – a California-based company – may well have come up with the overarching solution to a litany of CSP woes. RighGravity – released this week at CES – is the single (local or Cloud-hybrid) framework for managing all things Wi-Fi within the home. Righ also released a sleek new wall plug Wi-Fi 7 mesh AP dubbed ‘Cleo’.
EasyMesh, OpenSync, prplMesh, RDK-B, OpenWRT, prplOS – this is just a subset of the protocol and operating system options that operators need to navigate in their efforts to deliver effective smart home Wi-Fi services to the home. This week startup Righ is releasing a new framework designed to become the single multi-interoperable fabric that binds together (nearly) all existing protocol options – and delivers the host of Wi-Fi as well as CPE management features.
Righ says the new RighGravity framework is not intended to compete with existing platforms but rather to orchestrate, simplify, and ultimately make Wi-Fi (and CPE management) delivery a lot more cost efficient for CSPs. “We’ve designed RighGravity to deliver all the features CSPs need for Wi-Fi service delivery while bridging the gap between multiple protocols. This means CSPs no longer need to spend money on maintaining multiple SW platforms,” says Liem Vo, CEO of Righ.
For ODMs the new framework means fewer products. “Up until now most ODMs have been required to produce and support multiple mesh and gateway products depending on their CSP clients’ preferences for protocol and platform. With RighGravity, ODMs now only need to produce one product that supports them all. Add to this that RighGravity is SW license free,” he says.
RighGravity also offers a full suite of Wi-Fi management features, including Wi-Fi optimisation, AI-based predictive health-checks, self-healing, as well as data analysis for enhanced QoE. As a starting point the solution is decentralised (meaning processing is local and distributed among RighGravity devices) but can via APIs be supplemented with Cloud-based intelligence and management, such as Plume Cloud.
For more about the RighGravity solution also see this white paper.
Righ also launched its first hardware product at CES: A sleek, Wi-Fi 7 mesh wall plug AP dubbed ‘Cleo’. The new tri-band device delivers Wi-Fi 7 in the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands with 2×2 MIMO for each band (or two 5 GHz 2×2 radios for countries without 6 GHz allocations) and is powered by Qualcomm. The new mesh AP is enabled for both OpenSync and RighGravity, Righ says.
Righ was spun off from broadband service platform provider Plume in June 2024 and adopted the name Righ in October. Righ is today fully independent but still fulfils an important role as contributor to the software design services behind new releases and maintenance of the OpenSync platform as well as the main engineering team behind iconic Plume Superpod mesh APs.
The name ‘Righ’ derives from Gaelic and means ‘king’, the company says. “Our name embodies our company’s DNA, symbolising leadership, prestige, performance, and quality,” says Liem Vo.
For more join Righ at CES, January 7–10, 2025, at the Venetian Palazzo Tower in Las Vegas. See RighGravity in action, explore Righ’s 2025 hardware pipeline, and discover RighShop, a new social e-commerce service for set-top box engagement and ARPU boosts. Book a demo here and learn more at Righ.com.
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