Happy Friday! We hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend. Do you have any fun weekend plans? We’d love to hear about them!
In This Issue: Spring Projects | MTP Elite® Fiber Cable | How to use DAC Cables | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Spring Projects
Happy Friday, folks! It’s finally springtime here, and I’m excited about the longer days plus warmer weather! 😎
Spring brings new growth, which we can easily see in nature. Flowers start growing, and new leaves spring (pun intended) up on trees. This is also the time of year when new ideas start taking shape in my personal and professional life!
Personally, we created our spring to-do list a few weeks ago, which turned out to be a lot longer than usual this year! We are starting our first project this weekend (working on our deck), and the weather looks like it will be great for working outside. I enjoy small woodworking projects. It’s satisfying to start something and see it come to fruition over a day or two!
What projects are you looking forward to completing this spring?
Have a great weekend!
Chris
Product Spotlights & Updates
Our MTP Elite® line of fiber cables feature high performance US Conec MTP Elite® connectors for the ultimate in functionality and reliability. This highly versatile line of cables are made with Corning ClearCurve® glass and removable housings which allow users to change the gender of the cable in the field. Additionally, they feature a floating ferrule design which helps to improve mechanical performance by allowing two mated ferrules to maintain physical contact even while under an applied load.
Learning Center Article – How to use DAC Cables
Fiber optic networking runs the world, but designing and maintaining a network is not a simple task. You’ll have to compare a lot of different equipment choices, and considering the power and equipment demands, it can be easy to go over your budget.
Finding ways to save money without sacrificing performance is essential, and one tool that can help you with this is the DAC cable.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- If there’s one thing that’s clear from Chewy and Petco’s latest earnings reports, it’s that pet health care will be key to whether the companies can grow and make higher profits over the longer term. The retailers, which both released their quarterly earnings on Wednesday, began investing heavily into pet health when the pandemic-fueled pet boom saw 23 million American households welcome a new animal into their homes.
- A new missile strike targeted a U.S. base in northeast Syria Friday, a day after a U.S. contractor was killed and five U.S. service members and another U.S. contractor wounded when a suspected Iranian drone hit a coalition base in the same region.
- North Korea said Friday it had tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone designed to launch a “radioactive tsunami,” as its leader Kim Jong Un vowed to make his rivals “plunge into despair.”
- The prospect of TikTok being banned in America is becoming increasingly likely as regulators and lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have the popular video app in their crosshairs over its ties to China – and one regulatory expert says recent events leave the U.S. “no choice” but to restrict the social media giant.