Happy Thursday! We are getting closer and closer to the end of this short week. Who’s ready for the weekend? Do you have big plans?
In This Issue: Feeling the “lag” | Cisco 40GBase-SR4 QSFP+ Transceiver Module | Managed vs Unmanaged Switches: Which do you need? | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Feeling the “lag”
Good Thursday morning!
Is anyone else still feeling “lag” from the holiday weekend? Who would have thought that just one day out of a normal routine could have such a huge effect on the mind and body…good and bad. You would think I would be used to it by now but nope…every holiday or long weekend. It was a great weekend, though. I ate way too much food and got a little too much sun, but it was an awesome weekend with friends and a lot of pool time. Yesterday was the first day that I really started getting back into my normal routine and at least trying to get back to my normal eating habits. The eating thing again has been the hard part. Haha! I went for a six-mile run yesterday and my legs felt like they had weights on them and by mile one I was ready to quit, but I pressed on and felt so much better afterward. I am hoping my run (and eating) today goes even better. I love having a break from routine but it is nice getting back to normal quickly.
We are halfway through Summer, and for some Summer break is almost over with school starting back up for kids, but what plans do you have left? More trips? Landscaping? Back to school shopping? I have one more trip planned in two weeks to Savannah. Looking forward to getting out of town for a few days and relaxing. Of course, I will probably be just getting back into my normal routine when I leave and then have to do it all over again. Haha!
Hope everyone has a great rest of the week and weekend!
Jason
Product Spotlights & Updates
These Cisco original 40G QSFP+ modules are some of the most popular on the market today and are in many ways comparable to their popular 10G counterpart, SFP-10G-SR. These 40GBase-SR4 modules are parallel optic transceivers that are ideal for short-range reaches. These transceivers utilize MPO/MTP connectors, operate on OM3 or OM4 multimode fiber (MMF), and use 850nm lasers. These modules utilize 8 of the 12 MPO/MTP fibers to transmit data over 4 duplex (4 sending and 4 receiving) parallel channels at a rate of 10Gbps/channel resulting in 40Gbps speeds.
Learning Center Article – Managed vs Unmanaged Switches: Which do you need?
Switches are one of the core pieces of almost any major network. They manage traffic routing for Ethernet-connected devices. As such, they provide stable, fast means of communication for any device across the network.
If you run a business network, you’ll need some kind of switch, and when you look into it, you’ll find that there are two competing types of switches: managed and unmanaged.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- At 86 years old, American Airlines flight attendant Bette Nash is the oldest and longest-serving flight attendant in the world, according to Guinness World Records. Nash started flying back in 1957 and will celebrate 65 years in-flight this fall.
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation. Johnson said he would stay until the Conservative party picks a new leader, despite multiple people, including his two latest cabinet appointments, calling on him to step down immediately amid ethics scandals.
- A rural Georgia monument that some conservative Christians have criticized as satanic and that others have dubbed “America’s Stonehenge” was bombed before dawn on Wednesday in an attack that turned one of its four granite panels into rubble. The Georgia Guidestones monument near Elberton was damaged by an explosive device, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said. The Elbert County Emergency Management Agency said the explosion was seen on video cameras shortly after 4 a.m.
- Alaska wildlife officials have killed four black bears in a campground recently reserved for people in Anchorage who are homeless after the city’s largest shelter was closed. Employees from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday killed a sow and her two cubs and another adult bear that was acting separately, stealing food from tents inside Centennial Park, which is managed by the city