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It was 2:00 AM on a Sunday. Raj, the sole network engineer for a regional logistics firm, was staring at a black screen. The core switch—a Cisco 1941 router that had been humming happily in the rack since the Obama administration—had finally choked. A botched firmware update earlier that evening had corrupted the IOS.

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