CenturyLink’s network virtualization and edge compute strategy has been the talk of the town over the past week, in the process taunting AT&T’s own virtualization project. CenturyLink could be left red-faced if all this trumpet blowing proves to be purely hot air, particularly with the US telco’s inferior capex and recent gaffe which saw its network crippled for a day and a half. In short, CenturyLink has just switched on over 100 initial edge compute locations around the country for managed services, including a 5ms transport time from existing locations to the edge which it highlights as ideal for low latency use cases including VR, AR and machine learning-based services. But then a little spice was added to the mix.…