Earlier this morning, the company played host to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was making her annual tour of the CeBit show floor.

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CeBIT's show floor doesn't open up until tomorrow (and yeah, we'll be storming it like no other), but Netgear's wasting precisely no time in unveiling its latest wares.

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To be honest, CeBIT is a fairly sleepy tech show, especially compared to Mobile World Congress, which just wrapped last week.

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CeBIT, the giant IT trade show taking place this week in Hanover, Germany, is a serious place, dominated by serious companies that make serious tech products for serious customers.

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And Cebit is, above all, still a show for business.

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