Arris is not the first company that you think of when you think about video packagers for adaptive bit rate networks ‘ in fact there is no-one we think of first at Faultline, because there are so many companies that have sprung up over the past 4 years that lay claim to that type of capability. But the purchase this week for an undisclosed sum of Seawell Networks, one of the more operator oriented packager types, which offers carrier class video packaging systems, pushed Arris up there. The company already had built its own systems for packaging adaptive bit rate streams, but the kinds of additional capability in the Seawell product line, suggests it now has something of technical lead…