“Technological sovereignty is now a strategic pillar for European industry,” declares a statement from Orange, prefacing the French telco’s research into developing a sovereign content delivery network (CDN) hosted in Europe. In other words, Orange wants European traffic to stay on European infrastructure, controlled by European network operators, using European-made technologies. This is Orange’s warning shot across the bow of public CDNs like AWS CloudFront, Akamai, Cloudflare, and Google. The idea for a sovereign CDN was presented at Orange OpenTech, the operator’s flagship technology research event, under the subject of “Trusted Content Delivery Boost”—a pitch designed to both bolster quality of service (QoS) and protect infrastructure against cybersecurity attacks, even in the event of a partial network failure. The “Trusted…