Comcast Rolls Out Cloud-Managed Wi-Fi Platform
Comcast unveiled the xFi experience Monday, a platform controllable by mobile app, website, TV or the X1 voice remote, that’s designed to simplify home Wi-Fi networks as they become more advanced and handle more devices. With Comcast’s investment in Plume,…
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the platform will get a boost later this year from Plume’s Adaptive WiFi technology that uses pods around the home to maximize Wi-Fi in a “self-optimizing” mesh network that’s said to adapt to a household in real time to ensure fast speeds, the company said. Chris Satchell, chief product officer-Comcast Cable, in a blog post compared the xFi to the rollout of the X1 platform. Later this year, release of “zero-configuration” xFi Wi-Fi Pods from Plume will allow Xfinity customers to create “seamless Wi-Fi for any size or shape home” by plugging pods into power outlets around the home, said Satchell. The ISP said in 2017, 86 percent of in-home broadband use will travel over Wi-Fi, and by 2020, Americans will have an average of 50 Wi-Fi connected devices in their homes.