A whitepaper from Broadpeak, titled CPEs to Open Up and Become Smart … or Die, seems to be much more in favor of the latter position than the former, at least for the set top and its RDK-V platform. While praising the merits of the RDK stack, the paper essentially argues that RDK, both RDK-B (broadband) and RDK-V (video) variants, is a great open and innovative technical framework, and that it is well suited to helping consumer devices “become smart and get easy access to added value components, in particular for video streaming.” There are two main thrusts in the paper – that the set top is a smart platform that has improved the user experience, and that operators should…