Happy Thursday! Sending warm wishes to you and your family as you prepare for the weekend ahead.
In This Issue: CK Giving Day 9 | Cisco 1000BASE-T SFP Module | Importance of Fiber Optic Cleaning | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – CK Giving Day 9, The Boys and Girls Club of Jackson County
We’ve invited each member of our team to advance our giving efforts and provide us with an organization they are passionate about to donate $500 to. Enjoy Mandy Bentley’s story below on the organization they selected.
This year I chose to feed into a local youth development program. The Boys and Girls Club provides a safe place to play, grow and learn while empowering youth to excel in school, become good citizens and lead healthy, productive lives.
If you’re interested in donating to The Boys and Girls Club of Jackson County you can do so here!
Product Spotlights & Updates
Achieve Gigabit Ethernet connectivity over Cat5e copper wire using the Cisco GLC-T transceiver module. These hot-swappable 1000BASE-T SFP gigabit interface converters (GBIC) plug directly into a Gigabit Ethernet port or slot, linking the port with the network and delivering high-performance Ethernet networking. GLC-T modules utilize an RJ45 interface, are IEEE 802.3:2000 compliant, and can operate at lengths up to 100m (328 ft).
Learning Center Article – Importance of Fiber Optic Cleaning
Installing fiber optic systems is not easy. It requires multiple levels of expertise in design and application, and it’s why fiber optics experts are always in high demand.
As the name implies, fiber optic cleaning is the process of cleaning fiber connector end faces and components that are prone to contamination. Contamination can hurt fiber optic performance and even lead to test failures. Cleaning resolves one of the leading causes of these failures and produces a pristine fiber optic network that performs as expected.
To put it in simple terms, fiber optic cleaning is necessary to allow the components to perform as intended.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Forecasters predict an onslaught of heavy snow, ice, flooding and powerful winds from Thursday to Saturday in a broad swath of the country, from the Plains and Midwest to the East Coast. A surge of Arctic air will follow. The Christmas weekend could be the coldest in decades.
- Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington has been hailed as a historic, diplomatic success and it’s sure to be one that Kyiv hopes will boost the chances of ongoing financial and military support for Ukraine as the war continues.
- As Avatar: The Way of Water continues to blow up worldwide, James Cameron has indicated he’s game-planning far into the future. Writer-director Cameron has told Entertainment Weekly that he’s shot scenes from a proposed Avatar 3 and Avatar 4 concurrently with the recently released sequel. He did so to avoid having the younger cast members age out.
- Home sales declined 7.7% on a monthly basis in November. Sales were down 35.4% year over year, marking the tenth straight month of declines.