Happy Tuesday! As the holiday season fades away, our minds turn to our next opportunity for a vacation. While that may seem far off, today is National Shop for Travel Day so it’s the perfect day to start planning and shopping for flights and hotels.
In This Issue: Brighter Days Ahead & A National Title | Cisco 6500 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Module | Polarity for MPO Cables | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Brighter Days Ahead & A National Title
Good Morning & Happy Tuesday! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. I’d like to say mine was amazing, but in truth it was an extremely challenging ending to the year. I’m thankful to be moving on from 2022 and am hoping for brighter days ahead in 2023.
One bright spot for this year occurred last night with Georgia winning a 2nd straight national title. It wasn’t much of a game, but it was still fun to watch them achieve such an incredible goal. Go Dawgs!
Rebecca
Product Spotlights & Updates
With a lifetime warranty, remarkable prices, and hassle-free return policy, you can network confidently, conveniently, and affordably stay on top of your intensive networking demands with the Cisco 6500 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Module, WS-X6708-10G-3C. Connect up to eight networking devices with 10 Gbps capacity per port, boosting your network speed and capacity for superior and reliable performance.
Learning Center Article – Polarity for MPO Cables
High-end fiber optics are important to modern networking, but they’re a lot more complicated than some of their older counterparts. If you need the power of fiber, you might be looking into MPO systems. They can hit some of the highest speeds on the market today, but utilizing them requires knowledge. One key piece of knowledge that can help with MPO systems is polarity. Without this knowledge, you won’t get a connection across any of your lines.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- The United Nations has reported that Earth’s protective ozone layer is healing at a pace that will fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years.
- Changes are imminent for users running legacy versions of Windows operating systems on their machines. As Microsoft has been warning, the company is yanking support for Windows 7 Extended Security Update (ESU) and Windows 8 and 8.1 on Tuesday, January 10, which means users of those OSes will need to shift to Windows 10 or 11 to continue getting technical assistance and software updates.
- Amazon is expanding its Buy with Prime program that lets retailers add the company’s payment and fulfillment services to their own site. Buy with Prime users will also be able to display reviews from Amazon customers on their products.
- Pickup trucks again led America’s top-selling vehicles last year, but Tesla broke into the top 10 for the first time as a Covid-era shakeup among other popular models continues. Data and analytics firm Motor Intelligence reports the electric Tesla Model Y crossover was the sixth bestselling vehicle in the country in 2022, beating out the GMC Sierra pickup, Honda CR-V crossover, and other longstanding top sellers.