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Shift5 raises $50M to defend transport networks from cyberattacks

TechCrunch

You might not think much about the train or the airplane that gets you from one place to another, but behind any transportation link is a vast sprawling network of electronics, devices and data that keep trains on the tracks and planes in the sky. That effort seems to be paying off.

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Swarm’s low-cost satellite data network is now available to commercial clients

TechCrunch

One of the original startups that set out to create a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation to provide a data network here on Earth is now open for business: Swarm , which now operates 81 of its sandwich-sized satellites on orbit, announced today that its network service is live and available to commercial customers.

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Onomondo secures cash to expand its wireless network for IoT devices

TechCrunch

Onomondo , a startup offering a dedicated wireless network for internet of things (IoT) devices, today announced that it raised $21 million in a funding round led by Verdane with participation from Maersk Growth, People Ventures, and The Danish Growth Fund. A network reserved for IoT devices isn’t a novel concept.

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IOWN and the Next Internet

CIO

But there is a major roadblock preventing progress: the limitations of our communication networks and computing infrastructure. We need a new generation of the Internet to address these obstacles – an Internet that is personal, functional, smart, inspires trust, and can be widely adopted by all.

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Encapsulation and Decapsulation in Networking

The Crazy Programmer

In today’s era Network or Internet is used to send and receive data worldwide. As we know the network is a complex structure consisting of lots of computers and networking devices. We can’t send any data directly on the internet. The Network model does the credits. This is step 1.

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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

TechCrunch

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. The continent’s $115 billion digital economy is in its early phases.

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SNMP: Understanding Simple Network Management Protocol

Kaseya

Network monitoring is an essential IT task continuously performed on devices on a network to identify any issues and to fix them, ideally before they can affect business operations. Network management tools usually use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and remote monitoring probes to collect network data and analyze it.

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