®, the company behind the smart home service offerings of more than 170 Communications Service Providers (CSPs) served to more than 22 million households across the globe, today announced that it has closed a $270 million minority investment from global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. This Series E round at a $1.35 billion valuation brings Plume s total equity funding to $397 million.
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Plume was founded on the premise that a device will only ever be as smart as the network it s connected to, and that the existing smart home services were sorely lacking. Instead of attempting to improve only wireless coverage through distributed hardware, Plume s approach is entirely different – a comprehensive suite of cloud-controlled front-end services delivered over a smart, software-defined network. Plume s HomePass™ front-end services suite consists of adaptive and self-optimizing whole-home WiFi, AI driven cybersecurity a
The last year of life under a global health pandemic has seen a massive surge of people working from home — a shift that has thrown a stark light on the iffy quality of our broadband networks. Today a startup called Plume — which has built a mesh-Wi-Fi platform that helps optimize broadband connectivity and […]
The last year of life under a global health pandemic has seen a massive surge of people working from home a shift that has thrown a stark light on the iffy quality of our broadband networks. Today a startup called Plume which has built a mesh-Wi-Fi platform that helps optimize broadband connectivity and then uses it to deliver a range of smarter home services to some 22 million homes globally is announcing a major funding round of $270 million that underscores the opportunity to fix that, and more. "We’re the best at optimizing Wi-Fi connectivity in the home, but that is not what we’re about," said Fahri Diner, Plume's co-founder and CEO, in an interview with TechCrunch.
Plume: Over 20 Leading Wi-Fi 6 CPEs Debut on OpenSync The most widely deployed open-source silicon-to-cloud framework for the smart home supports the broadest range of Wi-Fi 6 CPEs, enabling CSPs to achieve a truly hardware-agnostic services platform
Together with leading Consumer Premises Equipment (CPE) partners ADTRAN, Askey, CIG, Hitron, Kaon, Sagemcom, Sercomm, Technicolor, and Zyxel Communications Smart Home Services pioneer Plume, today announced the availability of
over 20 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) CPEs fully supported by OpenSync. In fully optimizing the latest specification updates and enhancements, OpenSync has become the most broadly supported open-source silicon-to-cloud framework for Wi-Fi 6 globally.
The initial list of world-leading CPE providers who are launching Wi-Fi 6 CPEs with OpenSync includes:
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