Happy Friday! The cool weather is moving in and we are loving it. What are you weekend plans?
In This Issue: “Crocktober” Festivities | Cisco 1000BASE-SX SFP Module | Basics of MPO / MTP Fiber Cables | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – “Crocktober” Festivities
Happy Friday, folks! We are having a gathering at the CK office today. It has been affectionately called “Crocktober” for fun! We’ll be having all sorts of food to eat, a pie-eating contest, and playing some cornhole.
While we are primarily a remote workforce now, I really look forward to these gatherings where we can see each other in person. It helps us continue building the company culture and maintaining personal relationships.
Feel free to stop by and say hey if you’re in the Buford, GA, area around lunchtime. We’d love to see you!
Have a great weekend!
Chris
Product Spotlights & Updates
The GLC-SX-MMD is a hot-swappable Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) device that plugs into the Gigabit Ethernet port or slot on a switch or router to link the device with your fiber optic network. 1000BASE-SX SFP modules are a popular option because they can be used in combination with other IEEE 802.3z-compliant transceiver modules, including 1000BASELX/LH and 1000BASEZX interfaces.
Learning Center Article – Basics of MPO / MTP Fiber Cables
Fiber optic cables drive modern communication. They are the only viable means for arranging the ultra-high-speed systems that run the backbones of digital communication. Long-range internet connectivity is dominated by fiber optic cables. Perhaps more importantly, the massive data processing that goes on at data centers does the majority of the workload for internet communications and digital information handling.
These centers require increasingly fast speeds and throughput, and innovations in fiber optics technology continue to drive their development. As the cables themselves become more advanced, data centers are able to expand their capacity and performance.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Starting on Monday, Apple’s iOS 16.1 update will allow iPhone, iPad and Apple TV users to access Fitness+ even if they don’t have an Apple Watch. Apple is debuting its iCloud shared photo library. Unlike shared albums, everyone in the shared photo library will have the ability to add, delete, edit, or favorite photos and videos. On iOS 16.1, clean energy iPhone charging optimizes charging for when cleaner energy sources are available, Apple says, helping to decrease your iPhone’s carbon footprint.
- Thousands of hawks are doing what we all wish we could – flying south for the winter. In Michigan, for example, metro Detroiters are noticing hundreds of hawks flying in the sky and resting in backyards. In the last five days alone, the Detroit River Hawk Watch has counted 9,934 hawks. The association watches the birds fly every day from the Lake Erie Metropark, about 30 miles from downtown Detroit.
- Only three hours after releasing her new album, Midnights, Taylor Swift has dropped seven more songs written during the album’s conception.
- News broke late last night that the Panthers traded Christian McCaffrey to the 49ers, and early this morning McCaffrey posted a message of thanks to his former home. McCaffrey, who arrived in Carolina as the eighth overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft, wrote on social media that he’ll have fond memories of his time with the Panthers.