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The network is at the core of any IoT or edge computing solution. Connectivity is what makes IoT different from core embedded computing, after all. Selecting and implementing the right type of network for a specific deployment is more complex than it looks. L Peter Deutsch and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems identified the potential pitfalls in the 1990s, known today as the fallacies of distributed computing. The list goes like this:

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    Such bands are often called ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) bands.

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    Catalin Cimpanu, “Billions of devices vulnerable to new ‘BLESA’ Bluetooth security flaw,” zdnet.com, September 15, 2020. www.zdnet.com/article/billions-of-devices-vulnerable-to-new-blesa-bluetooth-security-flaw/

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    www.dash7-alliance.org/product/dash7-alliance-protocol-specification-v1-2/

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    www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-2022-wi-fi-trends

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    This table has been adapted from a talk by Kai Hudalla at EclipseCon 2021 titled “Rock Solid Device Connectivity.” You can watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CfTIw1k2rGQ

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Desbiens, F. (2023). Connectivity. In: Building Enterprise IoT Solutions with Eclipse IoT Technologies. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8882-5_9

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