OTT video delivery is heading in two directions – up towards the cloud and out to the edge. In its latest step on this journey, streaming video pioneer Wowza Media Systems has inked a partnership deal with network technology vendor Fastly, a company that impressed us at the Video Streaming Exchange in London in early December 2019, to bring high-speed content delivery and near real-time visibility into bandwidth consumption. Basically, Wowza is bulking up its intelligent diagnostics and analytics capabilities through the integration with Fastly’s edge cloud platform infrastructure. This comprises 66 high-density points of presence (POPs) in strategic global locations and 58 Tbps of edge capacity (as of September 2019). Fastly says its network combines real-time insights with “comprehensive…