Archives for May 2022

Happy Tuesday and Happy National Smile Day! Smiles are one of the most powerful tools we have. They are quite contagious and are directly linked to our brain to reduce stress. What makes you smile and how do you try and make people smile each day?

In This Issue: A Memorial Day Reflection | Yealink SIPT57W IP Desk Phone | All Wireless Standards are NOT Created Equal | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – A Memorial Day Reflection

Good Morning & Happy Tuesday! Hope everyone enjoyed their Memorial Day weekend!

I got to spend a little time at the pool, hung out with the family, and ate plenty of delicious food! It was a nice unofficial kickoff to Summer, but even with all the fun, Memorial Day really is a somber holiday. I spent plenty of time reflecting on what the day is all about and remembering those who gave their lives so that we can live safe and free here in the USA. I’m so humbled and thankful that throughout our history we’ve had brave soldiers willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice for the country they loved and believed in.

Obviously, we’ll never be able to personally thank them, but I do wonder what they’d say if we were able to talk. I wonder how they would answer the question “was it worth it?”. Has our country lived up to what they envisioned it would be? We’ll never get to have the actual conversation with them, but it’s a question worth pondering ourselves. Are we living in a way that honors their sacrifice in the way that we treat each other? The way we seek and hold political office? The way we advance the values of freedom, liberty, and justice for all?

We are so blessed to live in this great country and I hope that Memorial Day can serve as a reminder of just how blessed we are, and the responsibility that comes along with that! Hope everyone has a great week!

Rebecca

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Equipped with an adjustable and flexible 7-inch multi-point touch screen for much more comfortable viewing according to the needs, this Yealink SIP-T57W is perfect for all busy business professionals. The Yealink SIP-T57W boasts built-in Bluetooth 4.2 and the built-in dual-band 2.4G/5G Wi-Fi, the SIP-T57W IP Phone ensures you keep up with modern wireless technology. Its built-in USB 2.0 port allows for USB recording, a direct wired/wireless USB headset, or a connection of up to three Yealink EXP50 expansion modules. Benefitting from these features, the Yealink SIP-T57W is a powerful and expandable office phone that delivers optimum desktop efficiency and productivity.

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Learning Center Article – All Wireless Standards are NOT Created Equal

Everything is wireless these days so upgrading your Wi-Fi hardware is critical to future-proofing your network. When the time for new components is at hand, it is important to select the products that fully support your communication and data transfer needs. From fiber cabling to Wi-Fi routers, the choices abound and each one can have a direct impact on your overall network performance. Despite very similar nomenclature, the varying forms of 802.11 are all quite different.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• According to European Council, the European Union has agreed on a partial ban on Russian oil imports. They shared, “Agreement to ban the export of Russian oil to the EU is confirmed. This immediately covers more than 2/3 of oil imports from Russia, cutting a huge source of financing for its war machine.”
• Packages of FreshKampo and HEB brand strawberries are likely linked to more than a dozen recent cases of hepatitis A in California. The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and state and local partners, are investigating a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the U.S. and Canada potentially linked to fresh, organic strawberries with the FreshKampo or HEB labels and purchased between March 5, 2022, and April 25, 2022.
• On Friday NASA released footage of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying further and faster than ever before. The film recorded during Ingenuity’s 25th flight on April 8 when it flew 704 meters at up to 5.5 meters per second.
• “Top Gun: Maverick” soared to $124 million during its opening weekend.

Happy National Road Trip Day! Today declares the official kickoff of the summer road trip season. What road trips do you have planned for this summer?

In This Issue: Happy Memorial Day! | HP Original 146GB 6G SAS 10K SFF | Wired vs Wireless Networks: Which is better? | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Happy Memorial Day!

Good morning CK Family!

Wanted to take the time this morning to wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day! I hope you find ways to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military.

Enjoy the long weekend and stay safe!

Chris

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Product Spotlights & Updates

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Learning Center Article – Wired vs Wireless Networks: Which is better?

When it comes to designing your network, you have to make one basic decision before you get to anything else. Do you want wireless connectivity? The truth is that wired and wireless networks offer significant pros and cons when compared to each other. It’s important to have a good appreciation of those pros and cons before committing to your network design or plan.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• “Obi-Wan Kenobi” is premiering on Disney+ a few hours earlier than planned. Who’s ready?!
• Microsoft confirms it’s taking a ‘new approach’ with its game streaming device. It’s ‘pivoting away’ from the current iteration, reportedly a Chromecast-like device.
• Russia and China vetoed a US-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution to strengthen sanctions on North Korea in a vote the US ambassador to the UN called dangerous, disappointing and likely to fuel Pyongyang’s program to develop nuclear-capable missile systems.
• The supply of homes for sale jumped 9% last week compared with the same week one year ago. Pending home sales, a measure of signed contracts on existing homes, dropped nearly 4% in April, month to month and were down just over 9% from April 2021

Happy Thursday and Happy Paper Airplane Day! Did you know that the largest paper airplane had a wingspan of 59.74 ft?! Talk about massive!! Are you a paper airplane pro? What’s your secret?

In This Issue: Sacrifice & Family | Cisco 3750G Series Switch | How to Choose Ethernet Cables for Gaming | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Sacrifice & Family

Happy Thursday!

For most of us, Summer officially kicks off this weekend. School is getting out, vacations are starting, cookouts are happening, and pool time has begun. This weekend means so much more for us overall. This weekend, specifically Monday, we honor the sacrifice of those brave men and women who gave their lives for our freedom and protection. It is a somber reminder that all that we have, our ability to live our lives the way we do, and our freedoms did not come without a significant price. I want to take a moment to honor the sacrifice of those men, women, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, and friends, that made the ultimate sacrifice for us and our country.

As we gather with our families and friends this weekend, let’s remember to take time to honor these brave souls that have gone before us and given their lives for the freedom of our country. Also, with the horrors that we have seen on the news and have experienced as a nation over the past two weeks, and especially last Tuesday, remember to hug and show appreciation to your family and friends as you see them over the weekend.

I pray that you, your families, and friends have a safe Memorial Day weekend and that you make some special memories with all of them to kick off the summer.

Jason

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switches are an innovative product line that improves LAN operating efficiency by combining industry-leading ease of use and the highest resiliency available for stackable switches. This product series represents the next generation in desktop switches and features Cisco StackWise™ technology, a 32-Gbps stack interconnect that allows customers to build a unified, highly resilient switching system—one switch at a time. The WS-C3750G-48PS-S switch has 48 PoE Ethernet ports and four Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) uplinks.

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Learning Center Article – How to Choose Ethernet Cables for Gaming

It’s good that you are looking at Ethernet internet options. As a gamer, you likely understand the horror of laggy games. When it comes to home networks and gaming, latency is a huge deal and can make or break your whole experience – and in the game, whether you live, die, or succeed. Latency is always with us; it’s just a matter of how significant it is.

Wi-Fi simply isn’t as stable as Ethernet, and it leads to slower effective experiences due to higher chances of interference. Slow internet speeds can ruin the entire game, so you want something that can keep up. At the same time, you don’t want to spend a life’s fortune just on cables.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• For decades, Atari’s scrapped prototype arcade sequel Marble Madness II has been one of the un-emulated “holy grails” for popular multi-platform emulator MAME. This has limited gameplay to a handful of rare cabinet collectors and convention-goers. That changed this week, though, with the unexpected and unexplained leak of a full Marble Madness II ROM that can now be played by the world at large.
• Boeing’s Starliner has returned to Earth safely after docking with the International Space Station for the first time. The six-day Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 mission came to an end when the spacecraft landed at the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It’s the first American capsule to touch down on land instead of in the ocean.
• This weekend Tom Cruise has a chance to do something he’s never done before — open a film to more than $100 million at the domestic box office. Who’s ready for Top Gun: Maverick?
• Russia’s defense ministry claimed overnight that it will let foreign ships leave ports on the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. A safety corridor due to open Thursday will allow ships to leave Mariupol via the Sea of Azov port as well as Kherson and Odesa on the Black Sea, the report said. The Russian foreign ministry claimed yesterday that five foreign ships were able to leave Mariupol.

We’ve made it to the middle of the week! Hopefully, your to-do list is shrinking, your coffee pot is full, and the weekend ahead is looking bright. Hang in there!

In This Issue: First Concerts | Yealink EHS40 Headset Adapter | Single Mode vs Multimode Fiber Cables | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – First Concerts

Happy Wednesday!

This past weekend I got the joy of attending a concert with my cousin. It was her first concert and I think she loved it! She was fairly nervous at first, as she didn’t know what to expect, but once the songs she has listened to over a hundred times in preparation for the concert started playing – she loved it!

It was a pretty full-circle moment for me as the headliner of the concert was Kenny Chesney. And believe it or not, Kenny Chesney was the first concert I ever went to when I was in the 5th grade! She wasn’t there to see Kenny Chesney, but what are the odds that we’d go to a similar first concert over 10+ years later?

Anyways, do you remember your first concert? Who’s your favorite artist to see in concert?

Ashley

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Compatible with Yealink T58A / T57W / T54W / T53W / T53 / T48S / T46S / T42S / T41S IP Phones, the new advanced Yealink EHS40 Headset Adapter guarantees optimum efficiency in reception areas, call centers and offices. It is approved for use with wireless models made by major manufacturers, including Jabra, Plantronics and Sennheiser. With its ‘plug-and-play’ feature, it enables you a seamless and flexibility to answer and hang up calls remotely.

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Learning Center Article – Single Mode vs Multimode Fiber Cables

Fiber optics are essential for building the most capable networks, but when making design choices, there are plenty of options that serve fiber optics in general. One of the primary choices available to any network engineer exists between single-mode fiber and multimode fiber.

These are physically different approaches to fiber optics communication, and as such, they offer different strengths and weaknesses. To effectively choose the right design for your network, it helps to have a better understanding of what separates these types of cables.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• An 18-year-old gunman fatally shot 19 children and two adults at a Texas elementary school before he was killed by law enforcement officers. The shooter, identified by Texas officials as Salvador Ramos, of Uvalde, also shot his grandmother before crashing a vehicle near the school. The gunman is believed to have acted alone.
• Shares of Wendy’s surged roughly 15% in extended trading Tuesday after a filing revealed hedge fund Trian Partners, its largest shareholder, is exploring a potential deal with the company.
• Automaker Stellantis plans to invest more than $2.5 billion in partnership with Samsung SDI to build the automaker’s first U.S. electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility. The companies announced the new plant will be located in Kokomo, Indiana, where Stellantis already has a supplier base.
• Beginning June 1, a selection of Allbirds shoes, including its signature wool sneakers, will be available for sale in 14 Nordstrom locations.
• The assortment will expand to Nordstrom’s website and to additional stores later this year.

Happy Tuesday and Happy National Scavenger Hunt Day! Scavenger hunts are such a fun time to run around and hunt for random items all in the name of good fun. Do you enjoy a good scavenger hunt?

In This Issue: Fun Times in Nashville | Keystone Surface Mount Box | Cat7 Ethernet: Beginning & End | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Fun Times in Nashville

Good Morning & Happy Tuesday!

I am back in town after heading to Nashville, TN last week for a few days to attend a work conference. I’m not huge on conferences as they can be overwhelming for an introvert, but it seemed like this would be a good chance to meet some folks who I interact with on a regular basis and learn a few things so I stepped out of the comfort zone and went for it! I’m so glad I did because it turned out to be a great time. I got to meet a lot of folks and had some really great conversations!

It was also fun to experience Nashville. There’s so much great food, awesome live music, and really good people watching! 😉 It was a fun trip and I hope to attend next year! Hope everyone has a great week!

Rebecca

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Give your network a makeover. These attractive boxes will perfectly blend into your home or office decor, and can hold a multitude of jacks. Unloaded 1-Position Keystone Surface Mount Box, the easiest way to install a network outlet, is perfect for office cubicles or installations where the cable is run along a baseboard. Protects and hides your network connections, mounts with 2-sided tape or screws unloaded single position keystone mount box.

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Learning Center Article – Cat7 Ethernet: Beginning & End

Ethernet has been a staple in networking for decades. When copper cables can provide enough throughput, they tend to be much cheaper and easier to use than other connection types. Ethernet is the king of simplicity, and that’s a major part of why it is so popular.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Sunday Motor Co. Café in Madison, New Jersey, customers are sampling the latest in biodegradable non-plastic utensils – Straws made of seaweed.
• Airbnb announced that they are closing their domestic business in China.
• Walmart is expanding drone deliveries across six states with operator DroneUp, bringing its total network to 37 sites by year-end.
• Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will wrap up its landmark test flight to the International Space Station for NASA this week with a touchdown in New Mexico on Wednesday evening.

Heads or tails? Does it matter what side you find a penny on? Today is National Lucky Penny day – so whatever today brings, we hope it brings a few moments of luck!

In This Issue: Top Gun: Maverick | Dell Lithium-Ion Battery | Throughput vs DRAM and Flash Specs | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Top Gun: Maverick

Good Monday Morning!

I feel the need… the need for speed! Only four more days until the much-awaited Top Gun sequel – Top Gun: Maverick comes out. I’m very excited to watch this movie as the original was a favorite when I was a kid. I grew up in and around a few Air Force bases and I had the privilege of going to a few air shows and would always see planes overhead. My father served in the United States Air Force for 20 years.

With Top Gun you not only got to see some awesome planes such as the F-14 Tomcat, but you also got to experience what it was like to be in the cockpit and that made all the difference. The amazing soundtrack (which I owned on cassette tape) also majorly enhanced the film.

From all the buzz around the movie, I’m going to predict Top Gun: Maverick is going to be a wild success and I can’t wait to watch it. Are you all fans of Top Gun? If you haven’t seen it, you can watch the original Top Gun on Netflix.

Cris

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Servers are the workhorse of your network. They store your data, act as a web server, house your entire email library, run your applications, and occasionally act as your print server. Sometimes, servers need to have a little backup. This is where a controller battery comes into play. This Dell Lithium-Ion Battery is brand new backup battery for specific Dell servers. Better yet, it’s backed by our Lifetime Warranty guarantee!

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Learning Center Article – Throughput vs DRAM and Flash Specs

When it comes to designing and managing networks, there is an endless challenge of trying to improve performance. Inevitably, that includes upgrading and replacing hardware. When you research hardware for upgrades and replacements, you’ll see a lot of different tech specs listed in the descriptions.

Two common terms that come up are throughput and bandwidth. You’ll see bandwidth more in advertising spaces, and you’ll see throughput more when you look up real-world tests of the hardware. Why is throughput so important? Why don’t you see more about flash specs?

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Uber just released a new update that is going to allow you to book party buses, electric vehicles and more!
• Multiple Jif peanut butter products are being recalled due to an outbreak of salmonella linked to a Lexington, Ky., manufacturing facility. J.M. Smucker Co., the parent company for the popular peanut butter brand, issued a voluntary recall on Friday. The Food and Drug Administration along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local partners are investigating the outbreak that so far spans 12 states.
• Tiger Woods, struggling in his comeback from severe leg injuries sustained in a car crash last year, withdrew from the P.G.A. Championship on Saturday night. Woods had walked down an incline alongside a common practice area bunker, his right leg, which was surgically reconstructed 15 months ago with a rod, pins, and screws, buckled. Woods nearly collapsed into the sand, but quickly used a golf club and a half step with his left leg to remain upright. On the golf course, Woods continued to limp and move slowly and stiffly, descending into a tie for last place on the tournament leaderboard at 12-over par.
• SpaceX is seeking to raise $1.7 billion in new funding in hopes to boost its valuation to $127 billion.