Mavenir is leaping into the increasingly congested IoT edge analytics field after involvement in pre-commercial deployments with Telefónica among others, aiming to match the impact it has made in cloud RAN and the 5G core as an emerging player from the middle ranks. There is the danger of overstretch for a $500m company, but Mavenir insists it is harnessing technologies on the AI front in particular that it has been developing for several years, in this case pitching particularly at actionable insights from video monitoring. The company has presented its new Intelligent IoT Platform (IIoTP) for deployment either independently or in conjunction with its Intelligent Video Application (IVA), for running on any cloud or on-premises hardware. The company has specified support…