As much as Faultline would relish debunking the claim from Orange and Synamedia that the two companies have collaborated on a “first-of-its-kind” telco CDN + multi-CDN switching project, the joint-brag does have legs (at least on first glance). The announcement touts the integration of Synamedia’s Quortex Switch multi-CDN tool into Orange’s in-house CDN as an effort to improve service quality in the Middle East and Africa. But reading between the lines, the bigger story is about positioning Orange’s telco-grade CDN as an additional option for content providers alongside public global CDNs like Akamai and Cloudflare. With Orange’s significant footprint in the MENA region, the operator is subtly telling us that its CDN infrastructure (servers, caching nodes, network backbone) is superior…