Edge computing gets one of our revered buzzword award nominations from Mobile World Congress this year (excluding 5G), primarily for telco applications but vendors were also making a case for moving video closer to the edge. One vendor in particular speaking to us in detail about MEC (multi-access edge computing) was a US start-up called Alef Mobitech, who in fact kicked off proceedings by saying the term multi-access is in the process of being usurped by mobile, although we won’t throw the term multi-access on the fire just yet. The 70-person company has developed a software stack which includes business apps, infrastructure apps, NFVI and MEC services. Essentially, it has built an edge platform for making 3G services operate like…