HW073: OpenIntent: A Collaborative Effort for Wi-Fi Interoperability

About this episode

Keith interviews Jake Snyder about OpenIntent, an initiative for Wi-Fi interoperability.

OpenIntent is an open-source, collaborative effort by network operators to develop a standard schema to describe the necessary information needed to deploy network equipment. Keith sits down with Jake Snyder, the developer behind OpenIntent. They discuss why he developed OpenIntent, the building blocks of the schema, and his vision for seamless Wi-Fi design interoperability. AdSpot ... Read more »

People in this episode

Host: Keith

Guest: Jake Snyder

Topics covered

• Wi-Fi interoperability
• open-source
• network equipment
• collaboration
• schema development

Keywords

• OpenIntent
• Wi-Fi
• network operators
• schema
• interoperability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenIntent

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