The return of former NDS CEO Ade Peled as chairman of its remnants after being bought back out of Cisco for $1 billion, has a strange symmetry that no one would have predicted at the time. Yet the marriage between NDS and Cisco has never been a happy one and we were among the first to report on discontentment brewing beneath the surface among former NDS customers 18 months after Cisco’s $5 billion takeover in early 2012. Cisco had been parading one of its flagship NDS customers Sky Deutschland at IBC 2013, which obliged with some glowing testaments to the company’s growing capabilities in the video arena. But it was smaller NDS customers that proved Cisco’s undoing, finding that they…