Video processing vendor Anevia and cloud infrastructure provider Kontron may seem like unlikely bedfellows, but they have pooled resources to create a robust edge caching product purpose-built for reducing video traffic in the core network. This highlights the growing importance of edge compute in the video delivery ecosystem, and the challenges are particularly high when the medium is mobile. France-based Anevia is pushing for disruption, hoping to be instrumental in the world’s first operator-deployed edge cache server in a street cabinet, and to claim another world first by integrating splicing at the edge for dynamic ad insertion. The latter will arrive with version 5.3 of Anevia’s flagship NEA-CDN technology, according to CTO Damien Lucas. The partnership sees NEA-CDN running on…