It's just a news article and not that deep. It's a basic article reporting on five cases or whatever, no mention of all of us dying. I'm curious about your mindset to extrapolate all this from a run of the mill article reporting on deaths of people. Not a doctor, but maybe you should talk to one.
Vendor terminology is often different (tagged VLANs vs trunking, etc.) but, in general, it is close enough that an experienced person can figure it out with a bit of googling. I've built networks with Cisco, Mikrotik, Aruba/HP, custom Linux routers, and others. Mikrotik VLANs are a bit weird, for sure.
In today's world, is generally easy to get things to communicate. It's not 30 years ago and nobody is running DECnet, Appletalk, or IPX.
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