It is a forbidden cliché to utter the words France and revolution in the same breath, yet we feel there is something of a technology uprising happening among French vendors right now. Companies like Broadpeak, which has carved out its own well-respected CDN position with a penchant for multicast ABR, could face a growing threat from the combined force of Ateme and Anevia, as the two companies merge their respective encoding and CDN assets. Broadpeak’s VP of Marketing Nivedita Nouvel doesn’t really see it that way, but then again – as Faultline’s coverage has highlighted – Ateme’s acquisition of Anevia is not just another consolidatory move. She was, however, more than happy to acknowledge Anevia’s open criticism of multicast ABR…