Cisco is the latest tech biz to warn of a looming slowdown in spending as the network giant on Wednesday gave worse-than-expected guidance for the coming financial quarter.

For the first quarter of fiscal 2020 [PDF], ended October 26, Switchzilla performed as follows:

• Revenues of $13.2bn were up one per cent on the year-ago quarter. If you ignore the year-ago contribution from Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS), the commercial TV business that Cisco spun off during last year's fiscal Q1, the comparison jumps to two per cent. Analyst estimates were around $13.09bn in revenue for the quarter.
• Infrastructure Platforms

TalkTalk has today delayed its financial results due to "advanced negotiations with interested parties regarding its FibreNation business".

The budget Brit ISP is currently hoping to roll out full-fibre broadband to three million homes via sister company FibreNation and has been in the process of winning funding for the £1.5bn venture.

Following its initial York Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) build with Sky and CityFibre back in 2015, TalkTalk had announced a joint venture infrastructure fund to fund further build-outs.

But as Philip Carse, analyst at Megabuyte, noted, the deal was ripped up in November 2018 when TalkTalk instead announced

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The share price for Arista Networks has crashed after the network switch maker warned of a sudden softening to its turnover due to a "cloud titan" customer cutting back on its spending plans.

The company last night outlined financials for calendar Q3 ended 30 September with revenue up 7.6 per cent to $654.4m ($555m product and $99.04m services) and a profit of $208.9m, up from $168.5m in the prior year's quarter.

The cloud vertical segment remained Arista's top client market, followed by the "modern enterprise", the finance sector, service providers and the tier two cloud slingers.

To underscore Arista's reliance