On several occasions during Faultline’s busy briefing schedule at the 2023 NAB Show, suggestions were made that momentum in Open Caching has stalled. Others, namely Qwilt, remain firmly polarized to that idea. The suite of incomplete standards from the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA) have achieved a handful of high-profile deployments, with the Verizon-Disney streaming tie-up still considered something of a flagship testbed for the technology. However, this particular trial started two years ago, and some technology vendors situated in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center are growing dubious of the Open Caching business case. Meanwhile, Qwilt – a flagbearer for pre-standard Open Caching deployments – has recently secured the signature of Spanish telco giant Telefonica for…