Just as we were starting to get used to Vodafone’s common cloud-based video technology stack, the European operator’s Portuguese wing springs up with something different – deploying a new entertainment hub from Universal Electronics (UEI). We shouldn’t be too surprised, as Vodafone has always seemed to do its own thing with video in Portugal compared to elsewhere on the continent, with a pay TV platform built on legacy Mediaroom software, running on a DVR from Alcatel, and with a content discovery system backed by TiVo’s voice search. Back around 2015, when Kaltura was beginning to assert its influence all over Vodafone TV, it was clear the Portuguese system was not as easy to migrate to Kaltura and AWS as Vodafone’s…