Anyone who has been around the OTT video industry will have repeatedly heard the term “Dev Ops” over the past 12 months – and one of the main reasons that AT&T has acquired Canada’s Quickplay has been so it can become agile, and offer the frequent updates and QoS guarantees that only a software company can offer. How many operators have actually thought this through and gone out and acquired a software team of a few hundred skilled proponents, simply to ensure that it had a reactive development team? So for that AT&T has to be given credit, but at the same time its purchase of DirecTV prior to it owning a software agency of the quality of Quickplay, might…