“It goes much deeper than a just-in-time packager,” states Synamedia’s Julien Signes, Head of Video Networks, in response to Faultline’s probing of the video software vendor’s acquisition of French start-up Quortex. To have acquired a business with patented methods of automatically scaling cloud resources up and down ticks a lot of customer RFP boxes, including reducing cloud costs by up to 67% and slashing CO2 emissions – all while building video streams on-the-fly based on user requirements. Video service providers have been crying out for such technology, regardless of delivery mechanism and end user devices. It looks like a real scoop for Synamedia – which is why it also feels too good to be true. A seed of suspicion was…