Just over two years after Cisco and Ericsson announced a far-reaching strategic alliance, there have been very few concrete indications of its progress – and now Cisco appears to be trampling over its remnants by moving into its Swedish partner’s most central market, the RAN. The alliance, which led many to speculate that a full merger would follow, was supposed to generate an additional $1bn for each partner and allow them to address markets that had previously been closed. Cisco would be able to offer mobile RAN and end-to-end networks to cities, vertical industries and other key markets; Ericsson would have a full enterprise wireless platform and better access to corporate and IoT opportunities. But despite repeated insistence that the…