What prpl Does

We are a diverse community of Service Providers, OEMs, Silicon Vendors, ISVs and open-source developers committed to Open-Source and Open-APIs in support of Open Gateway CPE.  We are cultivating a large ecosystem of like-minded companies and individuals working to defragment the plethora of proprietary (or forked) software platforms being developed and deployed today.  We collaborate with industry organizations such as the Broadband-Forum.org and Wi-Fi.org in order to help accelerate our goals.

Please join us as a member in the prpl Foundation and help us drive our Mission…

Enable high-velocity, service-driven innovation on CPE by harmonizing interfaces in open APIs and delivering open-source reference implementations of common infrastructure.

prpl is all about Open APIs and Open-Source to drive Scalability

• Velocity by de-complexifying the process of integrating a Gateway (GW) stack onto multiple platforms
• Service-driven innovation by enabling proprietary differentiation from a 3rd-party Services ecosystem
• Harmonized APIs through collaboration & convergence among member companies and other industry organizations.
  – good layering and separable developments help companies scale-up their businesses
• Open-Source Community needed to jointly coalesce the largest possible ecosystem
  – Too wasteful having all our companies duplicating development of non-differentiating common infrastructure
  – prpl is cultivating a community of knowledgeable developers to help speed deployments

prpl is the place for Service Providers (SPs) to specify carrier-grade features for open gateways

Working Groups are established and meet to develop projects such as Open APIs or Open-Source stacks.

Governance comes from the Steering Committees and Board of Directors.

There are a variety of ways that member companies and others can contribute to or sponsor the work: See https://gitlab.com/groups/prpl-foundation/-/wikis/Contributing