Startup Righ launches 'RighGravity' multi-protocol CPE platform and sleek new 'Cleo' Wi-Fi 7 Wall Plug AP
By Claus Hetting, WiFi NOW CEO & Chairman
Smart home Wi-Fi service delivery platforms have for a long time been a hot mess of competing (and complementary) standards but now startup Righ, a California based company, may well have come up with the overarching solution to a litany of CSP woes. RighGravity – released this week at CES – is the single (local or Cloud-hybrid) framework for managing all things Wi-Fi within the home. Righ also released a sleek new Wi-Fi 7 mesh wall-plug AP dubbed ‘Cleo’.
EasyMesh, OpenSync, prplMesh, RDK-B, OpenWRT, prplOS – this is just a subset of the protocol and operating system options that operators need to navigate in their efforts to deliver effective smart home Wi-Fi services to the home. This week startup, Righ, is releasing a new framework designed to become the single multi-interoperable fabric that binds together (nearly) all existing protocol options – and delivers the host of Wi-Fi as well as CPE management features.
Righ says the new RighGravity framework is not intended to compete with existing platforms but rather to orchestrate, simplify, and ultimately make Wi-Fi (and CPE management) delivery a lot more cost efficient for CSPs.
For ODMs the new framework means fewer products. “Up until now most ODMs have been required to produce and support multiple mesh and gateway products depending on their CSP clients’ preferences for protocol and platform. With RighGravity, ODMs now only need to produce one product that supports them all." Add to this that RighGravity is SW license free,” he says.
RighGravity also offers a full suite of Wi-Fi management features, including Wi-Fi optimization, AI-based predictive health-checks, self-healing, as well data analysis for enhanced QoE. As a starting point the solution is decentralized (meaning processing is local and distributed among RighGravity devices) but can via APIs be supplemented with Cloud-based intelligence and management, such as Plume Cloud.
For more details about the RighGravity solution, check out the latest whitepaper.
Righ also launched its first hardware product at CES: A sleek, Wi-Fi 7 mesh wall plug AP dubbed ‘Cleo’. The new tri-band device delivers Wi-Fi 7 in the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands with 2×2 MIMO for each band (or two 5 GHz 2×2 radios for countries without 6 GHz allocations) and is powered by Qualcomm. Cleo is enabled for both OpenSync and RighGravity, Righ says.
(Right) Righ’s first hardware product launched at CES: The sleek, Wi-Fi 7 mesh wall plug AP ‘Cleo’.
Righ was spun off from broadband service platform provider Plume in June 2024 and adopted the name Righ in October. Righ is today fully independent, but still fulfills an important contribution role as the software design services behind new releases and maintenance of the OpenSync platform as well as the main engineering team behind the iconic Plume SuperPod mesh APs.
The name ‘Righ,’ derived from Gaelic and meaning “king,” which embodies the company’s DNA— symbolizing leadership, prestige, performance, and quality, the company says.
Join Righ at CES, January 7–10, 2025, in the Venetian Palazzo Tower to see RighGravity in action, explore their 2025 hardware pipeline, and discover RighShop, their new social e-commerce service, rekindling set-top box engagement and boosting ARPU.
Book a demo here and learn more at Righ.com.
