Five years ago this week… Harmonic hogged the headlines for the OTT launch of Vidgo, the sports-focused platform, but the real work was handled by Tulix Systems, CenturyLink, Zayo, Ateme, Imagine, Veygo, Verimatrix, and Kiswe. Tulix in particular built a live-first CDN and multi-CDN orchestration that anchored the service, showing how small, agile integrators often carry the heavy technical load behind major streaming launches. Today, Vidgo has settled into a more standard skinny-bundle model, but the technical choreography from the early 2020 launch remains a blueprint for modern OTT deployments. WBD deploys iBuild platform for Winter Olympics: Warner Bros Discovery will roll-out its purpose-built iBuild broadcast platform at next month’s Winter Olympics, enabling local manipulation of OBS feeds before distribution across linear, streaming, web, app, and social channels. The setup replaces rented kit, includes 22 km of cabling, Arista networking, Riedel intercoms, and Appear for feed distribution. Virtual studios,…