The Open Broadband – Multi Access Point (OB-MAP) project and the prpl Foundation’s prplMesh project are establishing a baseline vision of how data and control commands will be represented in TR-181. This will influence the design of the APIs presented by prplMesh.
The data model and prplMesh APIs are meeting the diagnostics and management needs of service providers that use multiple physical layer networking technologies to deliver ever-increasing broadband bandwidth and innovative services through complex home networks to end-user devices. This has impacted progress on prplMesh’s Northbound API (NAPI).
The OB-MAP project team continues its work on developing a high-level data model for network operators that would ease the ability to configure Wi-Fi across the home. Importantly, the data model enables configuration of different types of services, for example, public or private Wi-Fi. All devices traversing the home Wi-Fi network can be easily configured, allowing for different or identical configurations, for different frequency bands. The project team is also working on topology, to allow a full view of a Wi-Fi mesh network including wireless and wired links.
The OB-MAP project team will continue to collaborate with the BUS Work Area and the prpl Foundation on requirements and feature prioritization, and data modelling of multiple devices and services in a mesh network.
To learn more about the OB-MAP project’s ongoing work, please see: https://wiki.broadband-forum.org/display/OBMAP/OBMAP+Home.