Cisco saw itself sandwiched between two infrequently featured names on the Faultline radar, Corning and Hitron, to great effect, as the networking equipment titan was squeezed out of favor during Light Reading’s Cable Next-Gen event this week. Clearly, Cisco is hurting – with the ink barely dry on its $2 billion mega penalty for breaching cybersecurity patents. Discussing pandemic trends, Cisco’s Director of Service Provider Marketing Strategy, Robert Tynan, put on a brave face and said there had been “not a lot of downtick in business in general”. As expected, Cisco’s focus is on network cloudification and exploring structured SD-WAN deployments for cable customers, but then he contradicted himself, saying Cisco’s products and services are not significantly different to how…