There is no shortage of industry alliances targeting the convergence of connectivity and the cloud, especially at the edge of the network. But the latest, the Open Grid Alliance, has announced its objective as no less than supporting a re-architected Internet. “Like the power grid, from which it gathers its metaphorical inspiration, the Open Grid will be a software-defined system that stretches across the globe to support multi-cloud services via fungible resources that are employed, when and where they are needed, on demand, and with guarantees and service-level agreements,” states the group’s launch manifesto. Within that, 5G will have a critical role to play. This ambitious goal is being chased by a group of edge infrastructure and software-based network companies,…