Synamedia’s portage of a private CDN at UAE-based operator Etisalat will hardly be sending shivers down the spines of Akamai and Cloudflare, yet the deployment is symbolic of a need for large service providers to not just increase the size of their delivery pipes, but to diversify technologies inherent in the video delivery infrastructure itself. A name that might well be disgruntled by the news, however, is Ericsson, having ran a joint deployment with Etisalat of its Unified Delivery Network (UDN) across the Middle East for delivery of OTT video since March 2017 – with ambitions of establishing a global telco-owned network capable of competing with established CDN players. Ericsson did not respond to our requests for clarification on whether…