Limelight Networks’ acquisition of Edgecast from Yahoo this week has divided opinions unlike any video technology vendor M&A deal in recent memory. Cries of CDN consolidation have echoed out across the Faultline-sphere, followed by kneejerk descriptions of the merger as a combination of legacy technologies – akin to sticking two bricks together and hoping the joined unit floats. The truth is that this is a highly complementary – yet complex – deal set to generate tremendous efficiencies for numerous parties, including former Edgecast owner Verizon Communications and existing Yahoo owner Apollo Funds. Limelight and Edgecast will be merged and promptly rebranded as Edgio following the deal, in which the new Yahoo (in which Verizon still owns 10%) will jointly own…