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    {
      "slug": "arista-veos-lab",
      "name": "Arista Veos Lab"
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      "slug": "cisco-modeling-labs-cml-devnet-sandbox",
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  "updatedAt": "2026-04-10T02:22:24.08+00:00",
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    "employee_count": "Not publicly available",
    "funding_stage": "Not publicly available",
    "subcategory": "Network Emulation & Sandboxing"
  },
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      "Manual Hardware Labbing: Building internal lab environments using physical hardware or local virtualization (KVM, ESXi)."
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