Archives for April 2024

Happy Wednesday! We’re halfway through the week. Cheers to a great rest of the week and a checked-off to-do list as the weekend approaches. ✅

In This Issue: Celebrating More Firsts! | Cisco 1000BASE-T SFP Module | What are the advantages of OM5 Fiber? | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Celebrating More Firsts!

Happy Wednesday!

It’s been a pretty quiet week this week with spring break vacations in full force. If you’re on vacation, I hope you’re soaking up every minute! Looking forward to hearing about the adventures you may have gone on when you get back.

This weekend was a sweet one as we celebrated our little guys’ first Easter! We’ve had a few holidays before this one, but this one was certainly the most fun. Since he’s older, he’s more aware and can interact more with what’s going on and it makes it so much sweeter.

We didn’t do a lot for Easter but we did spend time with a majority of my family. We enjoyed some great food, fun games, and of course a little competition.

Do you have any Easter traditions with your family that you look forward to every year? Would love to hear about them!

Have a wonderful week!

Ashley

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Cisco GLC-T transceiver module is a 1000BASE-T SFP for Copper Networks. It is designed for Gigabit Ethernet connectivity over Category 5e (Cat5e) unshielded twisted pair copper cabling up to 100m link length via an RJ-45 connector. It operates at a data transfer rate of up to 1000 megabits per second (Mbps).

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Learning Center Article – What are the advantages of OM5 Fiber?

Information technology has headed in one obvious direction for the past several decades. More people come online every year, and the constant demand is for more speed. As these systems grow, infrastructure will continue to be put under greater strain in order to keep up with the trend.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• The superstar women’s college basketball matchups Monday night attracted more than just viewers — the games also set new sports betting records. FanDuel reported that the Louisiana State University versus Iowa game was its biggest betting event of all time for women’s sports.
• Prenosis announced its artificial intelligence-powered diagnostic tool for sepsis has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
• Web browser company Opera announced today it will now allow users to download and use Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on their computers.
• Private equity firm Silver Lake announced it’s acquiring Endeavor Group Holdings for $27.50 a share.

Happy Tuesday & Happy National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day! Did you know that the average American will have eaten over 2000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time they graduate from high school?

In This Issue: Spring Break Season | Yealink Busylight | Meraki Network Products | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Spring Break Season

Good Morning & Happy Tuesday!

Hope everyone survived April Fools Day without getting pranked too badly! The whole concept of April Fools Day is pretty silly in and of itself. I did a quick Google search to learn the origins of it, but it seems like there’s no clear answer other than this day has been celebrated for centuries and by a range of different cultures. I guess it’s good to know that humor and pranks are timeless traditions that unite us all!

With it being the first week of April, it’s Spring Break around here which is a nice change of pace. I’m mostly working this week but will be taking a little time off to hang out with my nieces and nephew who are out of school for the week. I’ve been promising each of them a “fun day” where they can kind of direct the day and decide where we go/what we do. Excited to finally make good on the promises and spend some quality time with them!

What are your Spring Break plans!?

Rebecca

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The Yealink BLT60 busylight allows users to let others know they are on a call to reduce interruptions and increase productivity! This busylight comes with a 1.8-meter cord which allows users to place the light wherever they please on their desk so that it can be easily seen by others. This busylight will also flash red when a call is coming in.

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Learning Center Article – Meraki Network Products

When it comes to industrial and enterprise networking, hardware solutions often create as many new problems as they solve. Networks get so complicated that scalable designs often devolve into a jumbled mess. Cisco Meraki offers an incredible solution to this problem.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Hiring portal Indeed has redesigned the profile page for users, allowing individuals to use an AI-powered writer to fill up work experience and also added support for multiple resumes. The company has also launched a set of smart sourcing suites for recruiters with features like AI-powered candidate summaries and custom messages.
• Reddit shares are plummeting after experiencing a rally stemming from the social media company’s IPO last week.
• Samsung could add generative artificial intelligence technology to its voice assistant Bixby. Samsung’s Bixby is across the company’s devices, from smartphones and smartwatches to its appliances.
• OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven’t bothered making an account. It won’t be quite the same experience, however — and of course all your chats will still go into their training data unless you opt out.

Happy Monday & Happy April Fools Day! Cheers to a day of celebrating the spirit of adventure, play, and a little bit of trickery in all of us. 😜

In This Issue: Celebrating Life & Easter | Cisco 3M Type 2 Stacking Cable | NaaS (Networking as a Service) | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Celebrating Life & Easter

Happy Monday!

I hope you had a great Easter weekend. Last week I wrote about my Uncle and his passing. This weekend we went to his hometown in Pineville, Louisiana to attend his funeral. He wanted to be buried next to his parents. The flight out was an adventure as we flew from Atlanta to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) to a tiny airport in Alexandria, Louisiana (which is right next to Pineville). We almost missed our connecting flight in DFW as our gate was about a 20 minute walk away. While Atlanta Airport may be huge, I think DFW is quite a bit more spread out.

The flight and trip went well. And there was a tearful and heartfelt remembrance given to my Uncle Mike. You could not have asked for a better father and human being, he will be sorely missed.

I was a little apprehensive about flying out to Alexandria. If you google the city, you’ll see some alarming crime statistics that are quite above the norm for Louisiana. However, what I experienced vs what I read about couldn’t be quite more different. The people of Alexandria that we encountered were quite warm and friendly and full of southern hospitality.

I live in a southern state, and you can tell that the same type of tradition permeates central Louisiana. We flew out on Friday and came back late Saturday night, the funeral was in the morning. It was a very short, but tiring trip. Luckily we made it home in time to spend Easter with family and attended a beautiful outdoor church service at a small venue nestled in Flowery Branch called The Farmhouse. You couldn’t ask for a better Easter service and wonderful weather.

It was a very bittersweet weekend, but I know Uncle Mike is in a better place and he’ll be truly missed. I hope you have a great day and a wonderful week!

Cris

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The Cisco StackWise-160 stacking cable, STACK-T2-3M, allows you to connect 3650 Series switches that have the 3650 Stack Module installed (3650-STACK-KIT). With the StackWise-160 technology, you can stack up to 9 switches with a stack bandwidth of 160 Gbps. Once stacked, the 3650 behaves as a single switch and is managed by a single “active” switch. The StackWise technology by Cisco is a premium stacking architecture and provides redundancy by allowing a standby switch to take over if the “active” switch fails to keep the stack operational.

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Learning Center Article – NaaS (Networking as a Service)

Networking can prove challenging, especially when your business and networking needs grow. It takes a lot of expertise, not to mention time, money, and energy to design, build, and maintain a professional network.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) market could be worth $1 trillion by 2040. eVTOLs are popularly called flying cars, air taxis or passenger drones and dozens of companies are wokring on thier own vehicles hoping for them to take flight this decade.
• AT&T has reset millions of customer account passcodes after a huge cache of data containing AT&T customer records was dumped online earlier this month.
• Microsoft will introduce a new version of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription service that excludes Teams, unbundling a suite following scrutiny from the European Union regulator and complaints from rival Slack.
• SpaceX launched Eutelsat’s latest geostationary satellite March 30 on a trip due to take around half a year to a geostationary orbit slot over Africa and Eurasia.