Streaming Media Connect 2022, the outlet’s second virtual event of the year, hosted a panel that covered edge compute and content delivery, setting the stage for some of the main topics of IBC. The discussion illustrated one of the chief problems in this industry – overlapping projects and a lack of public-facing clarity. To get to that point requires a bit of exposition, but before we wind down that path, it can be briefly summarized by stating that it appears from the outside that the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA, formerly the SVA) and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which launched the Web Application Video Ecosystem (WAVE) Project, are both separately working on a multi-CDN configuration effort. Given the rising…