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Life & fun · January 16, 2020

Packet.com with Drones, IoT, OpenFaaS and 5G, from CES

An IoT showcase for the power of bare metal compute and Sprint Curiosity 5G Network - equinix-labs/metal-iot

Packet.com with Drones, IoT, OpenFaaS and 5G, from CES launched on January 16, 2020 with 11 votes, #862 of 3,486 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

Packet.com is a cloud infrastructure platform that combines bare metal servers with support for drones, IoT devices, OpenFaaS functions, and 5G connectivity. It serves developers and organizations needing direct hardware access for edge computing and specialized workloads. The platform stands out by offering bare metal infrastructure specifically optimized for emerging technologies like IoT and serverless computing, rather than traditional virtualized cloud services.

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