Telecom Argentina has switched on its new CDN as-a-service, based on open caching technology from Qwilt and edge compute networking infrastructure from Cisco – in a project which has been at least a decade in the making. Has the Argentine operator finally got the right ingredients? This is an intriguing example of an operator striving for CDN excellence. A decade ago, Telecom Argentina was building its original in-house CDN with Broadpeak, which lasted up until around 2014/2015 when the OperatorCDN approach failed to take off. After then, Telecom Argentina was working exclusively with Cisco on networking infrastructure, although soon after this Cisco famously stripped itself of pure video delivery assets as Synamedia was spun out. Fast forward a few more…