Cisco is foremost among major corporations bursting for the limelight as they flock back to Mobile World Congress, which starts in Barcelona on Sunday, after two years of absence because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Cisco has set out its priorities clearly for the mobile industry It will be trumpeting its analytics capabilities and how these will be enhanced by the mobile edge for private 5G deployments. Wireless as a whole has come to the center of Cisco’s strategy, with an ambition to drive forward convergence between WiFi and 5G, another of its key themes at MWC 2022. These themes are currently somewhat overshadowed by speculation over its possible $20bn acquisition of analytics software company Splunk. This would be a lot…