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Indian electronics and lifestyle brand Boat raises $100 million from Warburg Pincus

TechCrunch

Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the most successful hardware startup story in the world’s second-largest internet market. There aren’t many hardware startups in India. and AirPod-like earbuds at $27.

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Headphone startup Nura gets acqui-hired by Denon parent, Masimo

TechCrunch

Every so often, a new startup crosses your radar and reminds you how exciting hardware can be. Turned out wireless audio could be much better than what we’ve slowly grown accustom to over the years. No one ever said hardware was easy. Melbourne-based Nura was one such company. But the point was clear.

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Driving toward 10G and Beyond: CableLabs Engagement in Standards Organizations and Industry Consortia

CableLabs

CableLabs continues to engage heavily with—and to play a key leadership role across—a broad group of global information and communications technology standards development organizations (SDOs) and industry consortia. Driving Convergence of Fixed and Mobile Access Across Wired and Wireless Networks. 3GPP , OnGo Alliance , Wi?

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

Although Rogers – one of Canada’s major internet, broadcasting, and mobile wireless companies – restored service to most customers within a day, the catastrophic loss of service startled Canadian businesses. But their CIOs are determined experts accustomed to “accomplishing amazing feats using free software and donated hardware,” says Knight.

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Samsara: Internet connected sensors enabling smart, scalable, managed IoT

CTOvision

Breakthroughs in semiconductors are making sensors smaller and radically cheaper, and wireless Internet connectivity is becoming ubiquitous. Our products combine plug-and-play sensors, wireless connectivity, and rich cloud-hosted software, all tightly-integrated for simple deployment. Research Team. Meraki was acquired by Cisco for $1.2

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Evolving 5G experiences

Capgemini

Wireless internet continues to evolve with each generation of 3GPP, and today connectivity has revolutionized how we design and consume internet in our daily life. With the advent of 5G, there is a shift in how we consume wireless internet. A Metaverse platform that is agnostic to underlying hardware or cloud technology.

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RAN intelligent controller – the innovation engine in O-RAN

Capgemini

Separating control plane functions from the base station hardware and centralizing them in a software-defined and cloud-native environment greatly enhances the Radio Access Network (RAN) capabilities. RIC addresses several challenges of deploying and operating 5G networks. The xApp increased spectral efficiency by 2x.