5 years ago this week… What appeared to be the last chance for Android TV Operator Tier to nab a tier 1 US cableco slipped through its fingers, as Altice USA elected to launch a new range of gateways powered by RDK. After the first GPON gateway with RDK went live at Altice SFR in France, the Altice Labs R&D division planned to unveil a suite of RDK-powered broadband gateways at Broadband World Forum 2019. The new portfolio would cover DOCSIS 3.0, DOCSIS 3.1 GPON (gigabit passive optical network) and XGS-PON. Today, Altice USA’s Optimum offers a Sagemcom-made 2023 Android TV set top, running a Broadcom SoC with support for AV1, VP9, HEVC, and H.264. Comcast has deployed Qwilt’s Open Edge platform to create what claims to…