An intriguing technical development has occurred at Canadian operator Telus—deploying a new origin packager from French CDN specialist Broadpeak, to simultaneously boost video streaming quality while reducing infrastructure costs. Telus, a long-term customer of Velocix for CDN infrastructure support, has been engrossed in a years-long hybrid CDN migration strategy involving Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—in turn part of the operator’s transition away from the legacy Mediaroom IPTV system. Like many hybrid infrastructure deployments, Telus’ project is a cautionary tale. Pay TV operators want to refresh delivery infrastructure to save costs in the long-term while becoming nimbler via cloud-based resources. Yet the reality for many is that the allure of the cloud is simply too expensive. Telus, which counts approximately 1.4 million…