The sale of the video synchronization product line Sye by Net Insight in late 2019 was not a huge surprise, nor was finding out a few weeks later that AWS was the buyer. Even the price tag of $37.2 million was kind of predictable. But one thing we did not expect was for the Swedish video technology vendor to reinvest the proceeds so quickly into acquisitions geared towards building on what it has historically done best. Net Insight has acquired IP video assets and an eight-person engineering team from California-headquartered Aperi – a specialist in virtualized software stacks and functions – for $1.2 million. The deal aims to improve the competitiveness of Net Insight’s media transport portfolio by covering a…