Happy Thursday! We are inching closer and closer to the weekend. Do you have any fun weekend plans you are gearing up for?
In This Issue: Learning to be Flexible | 19-inch rack mount kit for Cisco ISR 4330 | Difference between FCoE and FCIP | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Learning to be Flexible
Happy Thursday morning, everyone!
Ever had one of those weeks where you had everything planned out and it looked like everything was going to fall into place and then “BOOM” one thing happens and it sets off a chain reaction and throughs off your whole week…even the small things? Yeah, that about sums up my week this week. It’s been a great week but nothing (and I do mean nothing) has gone the way I had planned it at the beginning of the week. My mom tested positive for covid then my brother tested positive for covid this week, so that threw off some of the things that they had to have done which fell to me to have to take care of those things for them, which threw off the things that I needed done and so on and so on…
Flexibility is the key! I don’t like it sometimes, but that is just life I guess. Haha! But seriously, I used to get all worked up and frustrated when things didn’t go as planned or things and time being out of place. It would throw me off and I hated feeling that way. (That is one of my OCD quirks…everything has its place and order. I know there are others out there that deal with this that completely understand where I am coming from.) But, over there years, I have learned to go with the flow. Control what I can and make the best of what I can’t control. No sense in getting worked up, upset, or angry over stuff I can’t control. If I do that, I can’t think clearly enough to handle the curveball and make the best decision for the situation. Not easy all the time, like this week, but it is a part of life.
I hope the rest of your week and weekend go smoothly and “as planned”. I am planning on making the best of the rest of my week and I hope you do as well.
Jason
Product Spotlights & Updates
Whether you call them Rack Ears, Rack Kits, Rack Mount brackets, or Rack Mount Kits, we all know these are the first to go missing during a move or migration. CablesAndKits realizes that Rack Mount kits sometimes just go missing and we are here to help. This Rack Mount Kit is used to mount Cisco 4300 Series Routers into standard 19″ equipment racks. Includes 2 brackets and all screws necessary to attach brackets to the Router.
Learning Center Article – Difference between FCoE and FCIP
For enterprise operations, data management is an essential operation, and it requires powerful, robust designs in order to meet demand. That is why storage area networks (SAN) are so common. With SAN, you will often find that multiple types of connections are necessary to serve every need of the system, so you will be working with copper connections and fiber optics simultaneously. When those different infrastructures need to communicate, you need methods that bridge the gap.
When it comes to building connections between fiber channels and Ethernet, you have a few different options. Two of them are FCoE and FCIP. These represent dramatically different approaches to creating and maintaining cross-system communications, and it’s important to understand each of them in order to inform any networking decisions you make down the line.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Join NASA’s Orion spacecraft on its first mission around the Moon using the Artemis Real-time Orbit Website (AROW) to track the spacecraft’s flight as it happens. During Artemis I, Orion will travel 40,000 miles beyond the Moon in the first integrated flight test with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Using AROW, almost anyone with internet access can pinpoint where Orion is and track its distance from the Earth, distance from the Moon, mission duration, and more. AROW will be available beginning Aug. 28 on NASA’s website and on the @NASA_Orion Twitter account.
- Dodge unveiled a new electric muscle car concept that could replace the Challenger and Charger. It features a multispeed transmission and exhaust that gives the care the feel and sound of a gas-powered muscle car.
- A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27.
- Russia has deployed three fighter jets armed with hypersonic missiles to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.