Five years ago this week… Netflix announced what was deemed to be its most successful set of quarterly results yet, side-stepping the usual second quarter slump by smashing the 100 million subscriber milestone and surpassing its own growth estimations by 73%. With revenues and operating incomes both up significantly, investors were suddenly more willing to grin and bear the extreme original content strategy, with $6.6 billion spent in the year previous, and $16 billion committed to original content between 2017 and 2022. Edge caching connoisseur Qwilt claims that over 100 members of the National Cable Television cooperative (NCTC) members, mostly cable operators, are running its platform-as-a-service, based on Open Caching specifications and running on Cisco infrastructure. It comes as…