Happy Monday! We hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and was able to enjoy some time outside. Now that the weekend has come and gone, how’s your March Madness bracket looking? There are no perfect brackets left! Which upset shocked you the most?
In This Issue: Earliest Internet Memories | Cisco Meraki MX68 Security Appliance | All Wireless Standards are NOT Created Equal | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Earliest Internet Memories
Happy Monday! This weekend was pretty uneventful, but I did have a PC gaming night with some virtual friends. There were about 8 of us playing an immersive military simulation called Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Our group consists of a lot of parents, and we play together once or twice a month and it’s been a blast. It reminds me of LANs I used to have when I was in high school where we would physically bring our PCs to our friend’s houses to play games like Counter-Strike and StarCraft. My friends and I even met at LAN cafés aka PC Bangs (these were a thing in the early 2000s) where PCs were set up together with a T1 line and you could play games for an hourly rate. Internet speed has advanced so much these days that latency and lag are no longer an issue.
It’s amazing how much technology has advanced in the last 20 years. I distinctly remember the “you’ve got mail” sound from AOL back in the day when you had to use your modem tied to a telephone line to connect to the internet. I don’t think many people, especially in the newer generation (born after 2000) have telephone landlines! What are your earliest memories of the internet? I’m guessing some of you were born into the internet age and didn’t get to experience the joy/pain of dialup!
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Product Spotlights & Updates
The Cisco Meraki MX family of devices are multifunctional security & SD-WAN enterprise appliances that feature a wide range of capabilities to address a wide variety of use cases – from an all-in-one device. Organizations of all sizes and across all industries rely on the MX to deliver secure connectivity to hub locations or multi-cloud environments, as well as application quality of experience (QoE), through advanced analytics with machine learning.
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.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president, was welcomed to the United Arab Emirates. He was alleged to have taken with him $169m, from his country’s treasury. Six months on, Khalid Payenda, once Ghani’s finance minister, is driving an Uber in Washington DC.
- Bad news for anyone trying to redownload some old DSi games or Wii titles via each consoles’ respective store channels: Currently, players report both channels are down and have been for a few days now. Many are now concerned the channels may not return, possibly locking away a lot of digital content that people owned and didn’t have a chance to download before the possible surprise shutdown.
- Epic Games has announced that all proceeds accumulated through its massively popular battle royale shooter Fortnite from March 20 to April 3 will be donated to Direct Relief in Ukraine.
- President Joe Biden will travel to Poland on Friday as part of his diplomatic efforts surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war, according to a White House statement late Sunday. “He will hold a bilateral meeting with President Andrzej Duda,” the statement from press secretary Jen Psaki indicated. “The President will discuss how the United States, alongside our Allies and partners, is responding to the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created.”