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In This Issue: A Good Weekend for the Soul | HPE Aruba 2530 Series Switch | How to Choose Ethernet Cables for Gaming | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – A Good Weekend for the Soul
Good Morning & Happy Tuesday! It was a great weekend around here as I got to watch one of my childhood friends get married on Friday evening! The wedding was in Atlanta which, if I’m being honest, is one of my least favorite places to drive to. The traffic is horrendous and just thinking about having to drive around there gives me anxiety, but it was totally worth the drive as the wedding was incredibly beautiful! She was a glowing bride and the night was picture-perfect. We spent a lot of time reminiscing and I got to catch up with many of her family members who I hadn’t seen in a while. It was a great time and was so good for the soul!
Now I’m looking forward to putting in a solid week of getting stuff done before I head out on vacation next week! We’re heading to Hilton Head Island for a little family vacation which should be a lot of fun! My nephew came with us last year and he was truly living his best life. He’s joining again this year and I’m hopeful that he has just as much fun!
Hope everyone has a fantastic week!
Rebecca
Product Spotlights & Updates
The Aruba 2530 Series of switches was designed to offer cost-effective, reliable, and secure access layer connectivity for a wide range of uses from enterprise, to branch offices and small to mid-sized businesses. These easy-to-deploy switches feature an energy-efficient design that lowers power consumption for greater energy savings. These rackmount switches come in a wide variety of options including 8, 24, and 48 port models, PoE+ options, Gigabit and Fast Ethernet models as well as compact and fanless models. They are easy to deploy and manage using Aruba AirWave or Aruba Central with Zero Touch Provisioning.
Learning Center Article – How to Choose Ethernet Cables for Gaming
It’s good that you are looking at Ethernet internet options. As a gamer, you likely understand the horror of laggy games. When it comes to home networks and gaming, latency is a huge deal and can make or break your whole experience – and in the game, whether you live, die, or succeed. Latency is always with us; it’s just a matter of how significant it is. Wi-Fi simply isn’t as stable as Ethernet, and it leads to slower effective experiences due to higher chances of interference. Slow internet speeds can ruin the entire game, so you want something that can keep up. At the same time, you don’t want to spend a life’s fortune just on cables.
The good news is that Ethernet has a lot of options for you these days. From Cat5 to Cat8 cables, there is an option out there that matches the performance you want without committing you to too much money out of your pocket.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Kodiak Robotics and IKEA announced a pilot program in Texas. Trucks equipped with Kodiak’s self-driving system will make daily deliveries from a warehouse near Houston to an IKEA store near Dallas. Kodiak has been operating self-driving trucks in Texas since 2019.
- Microsoft has laid off employees across multiple divisions making it the latest big player in the tech space to cut jobs in the face of an economic downturn.
- After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti safely splashed down Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. Teams aboard SpaceX recovery vessels retrieved the spacecraft and astronauts.
- Apple is expected to unveil new iPad Pro tablets with its M2 chip in the next few days.