Austin, Texas and Wakefield, Massachusetts – August 11, 2026 – Wi-Fi Alliance® and prpl Foundation are strengthening their collaboration, reinforcing a shared commitment to accelerating the availability of interoperable, high-quality Wi-Fi® solutions for service providers.

The partnership will improve how the latest generations of Wi-Fi are implemented, validated, and deployed in broadband equipment and by broadband service providers.

“Reliable, high-performance Wi-Fi is essential to service providers’ delivery of the trusted connectivity experiences that users expect,” said Kevin Robinson, president and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance. “We are pleased to collaborate with prpl Foundation to accelerate the deployment of next-generation broadband CPE across service provider networks. By bringing together Wi-Fi Alliance’s industry-leading testing and certification programs with the innovation of the prpl Foundation open-source community, we can help speed the delivery of interoperable, high-quality Wi-Fi solutions in service provider deployments.

“By working together, we can each leverage the complementary nature of our organizations in that Wi-Fi Alliance standardizes Wi-Fi protocols and test plans, while prpl standardizes CPE software implementing those same Wi-Fi standards, for carrier-grade deployments around the world,” said prpl Foundation President, Dr. Leonard Dauphinee. “By commonizing those software implementations, prpl increases the conformity of Operators’ mass deployments, thereby improving interoperability in the broader Wi-Fi industry.”

The organizations share a commitment to fostering collaboration that benefits the global Wi-Fi ecosystem while supporting innovation, interoperability, and reliable connectivity for consumers, enterprises, and service providers worldwide.

About Wi-Fi Alliance® | www.wi-fi.org
Wi-Fi Alliance® is the worldwide network of companies that brings you Wi-Fi®. Members of our collaboration forum come together from across the Wi-Fi ecosystem with the shared vision to connect everyone and everything, everywhere, while providing the best possible user experience. Since 2000, Wi-Fi Alliance has completed more than 85,000 Wi-Fi certifications. The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ seal of approval designates products with proven interoperability, backward compatibility, and the highest industry-standard security protections in place. Today, Wi-Fi carries more than half of the Internet’s traffic in an ever-expanding variety of applications. Wi-Fi Alliance continues to drive the adoption and evolution of Wi-Fi, which billions of people rely on every day.