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by whoisjuan 2764 days ago
It could be IoT. One of the biggest challenges of IoT is connectivity. It's pretty hard to build reliable IoT implementations with 99% uptime on top of WiFi or BLE (and even harder when relying on broadband cellular networks).

There are many critical systems that in order to take advantage of connected technologies require dedicated or special protocols that can provide speed, reliability, high security, low latency, low power consumption, low data rates.