What started as a response to DigiCert certificates approaching end-of-life became a community-wide transformation — spanning requirements gathering, protocol selection, vendor evaluation, tooling development, infrastructure buildout, and live migration of thousands of devices worldwide.

The second annual OpenLAN Global Summit capped three days of Wi-Fi World Congress USA 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The message from speakers, operators, and contributors was consistent throughout the day: OpenLAN has moved past the question of whether open and disaggregated networking can work at scale. It already is.