ZHUBEI CITY, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- To address the global trend toward open-source systems for network operators, Airoha Technology, a subsidiary of MediaTek, announced today that following three years of collaborative development with Tier-1 operators, it has become the first in the world to successfully commercialize its prplOS open-source platforms. As of 2025, two of Airoha's chipset platforms have reached mass deployment. This achievement makes Airoha the world's first fiber broadband silicon provider to possess the technical expertise and commercial provenness across all three major open-source ecosystems: OpenWrt, RDK-B, and prplOS.
Responding to the surging demand for open-source flexibility, Airoha will expand its prplOS support to four additional fiber broadband platforms in 2026, enabling operators to interface with a more extensive application ecosystem. Furthermore, SoftAtHome, a leading global software company for telecom operators, has expressed its strong support and recognition of Airoha's visionary efforts within these ecosystems.
Overcoming the "Triple Challenge": LL API Compliance, Carrier-Grade Interoperability, and EU Cybersecurity Standards
The standards for prplOS are exceptionally stringent, requiring significant technical investment in 3 key areas: [1] SoC Compliance with Low-Level API (LL API): Ensuring deep-level hardware abstraction. [2] Carrier-Grade Interoperability: Passing rigorous interoperability testing (IOP) mandated by telcos, which typically spans at least six months. [3] Cybersecurity Compliance: Adhering to the stringent commitments of the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
Airoha Technology has spent over three years methodically overcoming these barriers. By addressing customer needs with a pragmatic approach, Airoha has successfully reduced the integration cycle for this open architecture from the industry average of 18–24 months down to just 6–9 months, significantly lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) for fixed-line broadband operators.
First Silicon Provider to Enable Commercial Deployment Across Three Major Open-Source Platforms
In 2025, two of Airoha's GPON SoC platforms received prplOS certification and completed commercial deployment with several operators, earning high praise for stability and performance. In 2026, Airoha will add three 10G-PON platforms and one GPON SoC platform to its prplOS-ready portfolio. By providing global fiber broadband operators with diverse and open choices, Airoha is effectively "decoupling" the application ecosystem, which is expected to bring significant positive disruption to the industry.
MH Shieh, Executive Vice President and Spokesperson of Airoha Technology, stated: "For 20 years, we have stood by global operators through every generation of broadband technology upgrades. We deeply understand the pain points and friction they face when deploying new technologies. Driven by an engineering culture of humility and excellence, our team continuously enhances the software maturity of our SoC platforms across OpenWrt, RDK-B, and prplOS. Our goal is to provide maximum flexibility and support, helping customers accelerate their time-to-market (TTM) for new services. We look forward to working with more ecosystem partners to promote the global proliferation of fiber-to-the-home services."
Expanding the Fiber Broadband Portfolio to Drive Innovation and Ecosystem Decoupling
While open-source systems allow operators to reduce development costs and accelerate service launches, the industry has long faced a gap. Insufficient investment from core chipset providers in open-source ecosystems has often left operators unable to adopt prplOS at scale. Airoha Technology remains customer-centric, demonstrating long-term commitment and technical perseverance. Over the past three years, in partnership with SoftAtHome and various system integrators, Airoha has passed rigorous technical and market validations and continues to push the boundaries of what is possible.
Arnaud Bensaid, VP Marketing at SoftAtHome noted: "SoftAtHome values Airoha Technology as a trusted silicon partner. Their stable platforms help us innovate on prplOS, and our 2025 launch with Orange Jordan— the world's first home fiber services built on a full prplOS architecture—shows how this collaboration delivers real benefits for customers. We believe Airoha's efforts will lower the barrier for innovation, fostering a more vibrant fiber broadband ecosystem."
[Glossary of Terms] The global fiber broadband market primarily utilizes three open-source operating systems: OpenWrt, RDK-B, and prplOS. Among these, prplOS provides a unified, carrier-grade standard specifically designed for telecommunications operators. It enables them to rapidly integrate a diverse range of applications, shortening development cycles and allowing telcos to remain agile and competitive by offering innovative experiences to their subscribers.
Media contact: Airoha Technology, Terrence Chang, Email: terrence.chang@airoha.com
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Airoha Technology Achieves Global Milestone as First Silicon Provider to Successfully Commercialize prplOS-based Fiber Broadband Platforms
Acquisition launches accesso IntelligenceSM, connecting guest and operator data, insight and action across the entire operation
ORLANDO, Fla., March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- accesso Technology Group (AIM: ACSO), the leading global technology provider to leisure, entertainment and cultural markets, today announced the acquisition of Dexibit Limited, the only AI and analytics platform purpose-built for the visitor attractions industry.
Operators generate vast amounts of data, but it often sits in disconnected systems and takes too long to turn into action. As operators face increasing complexity across systems, data and rising guest expectations, the ability to turn insight into action quickly is becoming critical.
The acquisition launches accesso Intelligence, a new AI powered cross platform capability designed to help operators make smarter, faster decisions across their business, connecting data across accesso's own solutions, as well as across the third party systems operators rely on daily.
Dexibit brings the industry's only cross vendor intelligence platform, built across more than 100 systems and years of aggregated data and benchmarks, powering smarter decisions through unified data, conversational insight and forecasting. Dexibit already serves some of the world's most recognized cultural and entertainment institutions, including leading aquariums, museums and visitor attractions.
With accesso Intelligence, operators will close the gap between information and actionable decisions:
- Unify all data into a single intelligence layer, including ticketing, food, retail, operations, weather, visitor reviews, local events and data from third party and external systems.
- Put insight in the hands of every decision-maker through conversational AI, so an operations manager can ask "Why did last Saturday underperform?" and quickly get an answer and act.
- Drive action and informed decisions across strategy and operations and feed updates directly into accesso ticketing, virtual queuing and retail systems.
Venue operators typically lack the scale or in-house expertise to build an enterprise-wide analytics capability on their own. While many technology providers are introducing AI features within individual products, accesso Intelligence represents a fundamentally different approach. Bringing cross platform capability to every system operators rely on, it helps them optimize their entire operation, bringing together data, decisions and action in one place.
Rather than an incremental step, this acquisition represents a significant leap forward, rapidly accelerating accesso's ability to deliver these capabilities to its customers. accesso will also continue to embed AI into its individual products as part of their natural evolution, but this acquisition represents something broader: an intelligence layer that sits above any single product and strengthens the entire ecosystem.
"Putting operators first is at the core of what we do by helping them optimize their business, and AI is now becoming an important part of how we deliver on that," said Steve Brown, CEO at accesso. "With Accesso intelligence, we are bringing together data across all the systems they use, including Accesso solutions, to create a more complete and connected view of their operation. We are delighted to welcome the Dexibit team to Accesso as we deliver on this vision."
"I am incredibly proud that Dexibit is joining Accesso, whose unparalleled global reach spans the world's most iconic attractions," said Angie Judge, CEO of Dexibit. "As we got to know the team, it genuinely felt like home. Together we can build something genuinely transformative for the industry, combining intelligence and execution to help venue operators move faster with insightful decisions in an increasingly complex landscape. We can't wait to get started."
About accesso Technology Group plc
accesso is the leading global provider of patented and award-winning technology solutions that redefine the guest experience. accesso provides connected ticketing and eCommerce, virtual queuing, restaurant and retail point of sale, distribution, mobile apps, experience management and analytics solutions for more than 1,100 venues worldwide. Its technology helps operators streamline operations, increase revenue and improve the guest journey. accesso delivers a high volume of product enhancements year-round and continuously invests in R&D to help venues and operators adapt to evolving guest needs.
accesso is a public company, listed on AIM: a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. Learn more at accesso.com or follow accesso on X (Twitter), LinkedIn and Facebook.
About Dexibit
Dexibit is the purpose-built data and AI platform for visitor attractions, connecting industry operating systems alongside external data and unique Dexibit benchmarks to give attractions a complete unified picture of their visitor experience and venue operation, powering strategic and operational decisions. Dexibit includes data experience, data management, conversational insight, machine learning forecasts and generative voice of the visitor. Learn more at dexibit.com.
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accesso® Acquires Dexibit®, Establishing the First Cross Platform AI and Analytics Platform for Visitor Attractions
accesso® Acquires Dexibit®, Establishing the First Cross Platform AI and Analytics Platform for Visitor Attractions
