Five years ago this week… Arris announced a five-year deal with Telefonica to provide set tops across the operator’s entire footprint in Spain and Latin America, just as the latter was expanding the footprint of its OTT service Movistar Play. The project, called Proteus, comprised HD, UHD, DTH, cable and IPTV set tops, and launched in beta in 2017. Arris had recently committed to focusing on Android devices, which Faultline imagined had swung the Telefonica deal in its favor. Arris’ foray into software, kickstarted by the 2015 acquisition of Pace, was then in turn boosted by the 2016 acquisition of ActiveVideo which looked set to provide the backbone for Arris’ new cloud services. — America Movil’s Panama-based Claro…