Edge node deployer Qwilt has inked a groundbreaking piggyback deal with a little-known entity called Cirion Technologies – better known by most as the resurrection of CDN provider Lumen in Latin America. Lumen’s assets, including terrestrial fiber and data centers, were taken over by US investment firm Stonepeak Partners in August 2022, in a sizable $2.7 billion deal, which preempted the retirement of Lumen’s CDN business in Q4 2023. Almost 18 months later, what remains is a skeleton CDN geared towards supporting scale-out of so-called edge-based CDNs like Qwilt. With Qwilt adding Latin American specialist Cirion Technologies to its reseller ranks, hoping to win Latin American ISP deals, the tie-up compounds what Faultline has been demanding of Qwilt for years…