Five years ago this week… While a lot has changed, maybe not much has changed at all. Ahead of IBC 2019, multi-CDN strategies were increasingly popular mechanisms for saving bandwidth and increasing video QoE, particularly in telco circles, which in turn saw the rise of intelligent CDN switching techniques. Load balancing is by no means a new phenomenon, which is why the launch of a service from Swedish vendor Edgeware called StreamPilot raised some eyebrows – claiming the industry’s first multi-CDN control kit agnostic of client, media format or CDN. Now owned by Agile Content, we have covered the updated product in a separate story this week. After launching its WatchParty product at IBC 2023, Swissmiddleware vendor iWedia has…