Five years ago this week… Faultline was taken aback by the news that Ericsson had landed a deal at Japan’s J:COM to provide its MediaFirst TV Platform. This marked the first time that a traditional cable firm with millions of existing customers had made a switch out of traditional cable to MediaFirst. Ericsson’s adoption of RDK the year before had been crucial in pushing this through, although we had suspected that this was more to bring the efficiencies of RDK to IPTV, rather than invade cable. — RDK has surpassed 100 million device deployments worldwide, rising from 80 million this time last year. RDK Management also revealed that 100 new technology companies have joined the open source community in the last year, reaching…