Faultline thought it fitting to close out our final issue of 2021 exactly where we opened this year’s account – on the topic of Open Caching. The first week of January 2021 kicked off with TIM in Brazil becoming the country’s first operator to implement a CDN based on the Open Caching architecture from the Streaming Video Alliance, with the operator deploying technologies from Cisco, Qwilt and Digital Alpha. Open Caching has come a long way since, and this week Velocix has introduced a carrier-grade Open Caching platform, building on the UK-based vendor’s hybrid-cloud CDN technology – which at its core takes the internal content delivery infrastructure of individual service providers and forms them into a global CDN using open…