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Inside the wild collapse of Sandvine

In an office in Dubai, half a world away from Sandvine’s headquarters in Waterloo, Ont., the company was scrambling to survive. It was April and Sandvine, which had just been blacklisted by the U.S. for allegedly selling its technology to authoritarian governments, was rejecting all new business. 

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