Akamai has a treasure trove of R&D projects plugging away behind tightly-locked doors to catalyze the CDN titan’s transition from a traditional media delivery business, to an edge compute and security business. But still many of the bleeding-edge developments are happening in streaming video, some of which were teased during a recent webinar by Akamai’s Chief Architect, Will Law – covering Common Media Client Data (CMCD), content steering, QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections), Akamai Fabric, and more. It was notable that Law prefaced the dictionary-type discussion with NETINT’s Jan Ozer, Senior Director of Marketing, by describing CDN as one-third of Akamai’s business today. This isn’t strictly accurate, if we are being pedantic, although it isn’t far off, with Akamai’s Delivery…