Five years ago this week… Akamai CEO Dr. Tom Leighton discussed how the company’s edge infrastructure handled the surge in video streaming traffic triggered by the global pandemic, with data peaking at 167 Tbps in March 2020—double the previous year’s peak. Leighton praised Akamai’s global network, designed to avoid congestion and improve performance, particularly for video and non-cacheable content. Akamai claimed it saw no business disruption, but the CDN numbers speak for themselves, while customers struggled in travel and retail. HEVC patent pool targets Microsoft: Three licensors from the Via LA HEVC patent pool—M&K Holdings, Gensquare, and Tagivan II—have filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft in Germany. The plaintiffs allege Microsoft has used HEV) technology without proper licensing in…