Stepping into the new year with a branding makeover, French video delivery vendor Ateme has attracted long-term operator customer Canal+ to its NEA just-in-time packager product for low latency streaming – exclusively on the AppleTV OTT video platform. Like no smoke without fire, we rarely find low latency technologies without live sports – and where we find low latency streaming, we rarely see it in a real-life deployment. The Canal+ announcement is no demo, however, with Ateme emphasizing that this is one of the world’s first OTT low latency cases of its type. The Vivendi-owned operator deployment crunches latency time from 40 seconds to 5 seconds for streaming sports in HD and UHD via the myCanal SVoD application, specifically only…