“Disrupting the Status Quo” was the title of Synamedia’s latest briefing, to describe its approach to scalable open CDN architectures. While the presentation was nicely polished, this was the kind of product pitch where the term disruptive is largely subjective—in an hour lacking concrete facts or, crucially, new customer updates to support these claims. Julien Signes, SVP and GM of Synamedia’s Video Network division, at least acknowledged that the company’s CDN portfolio is operating in a consolidating market—a point that, unsurprisingly, offers no major revelations. Most video service providers don’t need ultra-high bitrates or millions of concurrent customers, yet CDNs are still largely unable to guarantee reliable performance at scale. As Signes pointed out, most CDNs sell bandwidth by the…