Five years ago this week… Swisscom completed its MediaCloud project, which it claimed was the industry’s first IPTV virtualized video headend system, designed to cut opex and create operational simplicity. Ateme’s Titan suite was chosen as the transcoding platform for this NFV-based headend, knocking Cisco’s AnyRes encoders and AWS Elemental out of a job, while the leg-work was carried out by HPE, designing a core NFV workflow around unspecialized hardware so that all the jobs (ingest, transcoding, encryption and workflow management) could be implemented on interchangeable hardware which could overflow to the cloud. — Netflix’s password sharing clampdown has officially gone live in 100 countries, including the US and UK markets. Netflix has emailed all subscribers in these territories, requesting…