One of a biggest networking attention stories of a past dual years has been a merger of one struggling supplier, Alcatel-Lucent, by another, Nokia. The fondness between a dual firms, that combined a new European networking force in areas such as carrier-grade telecoms networking hardware, long-term expansion (LTE), bound broadband and wireless, was cemented early in 2016,  though there was shortly bad news for employees as Nokia embarked on a turn of redundancies in a name of cost synergy.