Insight: For Cisco and Huawei, a bruising rivalry reaches stalemate

LOCKED IN BATTLE: The past year suggests Cisco and Huawei have ground to an expensive stalemate, raising questions about their futures on each other's lucrative home turf. — Reuters

Cisco Systems Inc and Huawei Technologies Co, two of the world's largest communications equipment makers, have been slugging it out for a decade now — in court, in emerging markets, in the lobbies of government and even on blogs. 

The past year suggests they've ground to an expensive stalemate, raising questions about their futures on each other's lucrative home turf.