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Oct 17th, 2019
This week's High Speed Ethernet Plugfest at UNH-IOL drew more participants than the previous one.
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Verizon teams with Lanner Electronics for universal CPE
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PacketLight Networks earns NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 2 compliance for fiber-optic network encryption
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