Comcast’s business wing is gearing up to launch its new virtual CPE (vCPE) offering in Q3 or perhaps Q4, as part of its software-defined networking (SDN) portfolio. The business technologies, looking to take advantage of the spike in home working, essentially transform legacy hardware functions into ones that can be run in software, hence the name, but it is only a matter of time until vCPE kicks the door in on the consumer side of things. In short, vCPE could be applied to the home broadband and pay TV markets, dramatically cutting the capex and support costs of in-home devices, bringing the efficiency of cloud computing to bear – replacing costly set tops with low-cost dongles or native applications, and…