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Cisco has ended a long-running sales partnership with ZTE, according Reuters, following allegations that ZTE illegally shipped Cisco gear to Iran. The report cites an a Cisco investigation, as well as investigations by the U.S. Commerce Department, a congressional committee, and the FBI.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/us-cisco-zte-iran-idUSBRE89709N20121008
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From the Technology Graveyard
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Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
