CK Daily Updates

Happy National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day! Today we celebrate raisins coated in a shell of either milk chocolate or dark chocolate. Moviegoers have been snacking on chocolate-covered raisins for many, many years. Somehow, popcorn, a box of chocolate-covered raisins go together perfectly.

In This Issue: Where did March Go? | Cisco 2821/2851-1/2 Router Chassis Fan | Wired vs Wireless Networks: Which is better? | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Where did March Go?

Hey everyone! Hope your Thursday is starting off fantastic! Can you believe that we are almost to the end of March?!? It is crazy! This month has flown by but it has been SUPER busy, both at CK and personally.

From a personal perspective, I wanted to share a quick update on the race last weekend and the knee. Went to the doctor for the knee to just make sure nothing bad was going on even though it has been doing a bit better. The doctor confirmed that it is I.T. Band Syndrome. (I.T. is fitting for my line of work I guess, Haha!) He said my knees looked like they were in great condition it is just that the repetitive motion of the routes I am running and then running on the treadmill has worn out the I.T. band on my right knee. He gave me some stretches, exercises, and some advice on switching up my running and I should be good to go in a few more weeks. With the race, I did much better than I thought I would even with the race being a slight incline up a hill for most of the way. I finished at 25:30, 11th overall, and 1st in my age group (I guess it pays off getting older, LOL!). Overall, I was very pleased and the knee did very well. Thanks for all the well-wishes last week!

At CK, man do we have some exciting stuff heading your way very soon! I have mentioned before that we have been in the process of building a new website. It got slowed down over the past year or so with Covid and other things but it is full-steam ahead now! We signed off on the design for the homepage, site frame, and the learning center this past week. We are currently working on the designs for the product pages and other items. I really think y’all will enjoy the new look, layout, and all the “bells & whistles” that will come with the new site. I can’t wait to show it to y’all very soon! The whole project has really got me pumped up about all the cool stuff we can do for y’all on the new site.

I really appreciate every one of you taking the time to stay connected with us through these daily emails. It means a ton to us when you email us back when we chat with y’all through these emails.

I hope y’all have an awesome day and an amazing weekend! Make it a great one!

Jason

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Don’t let your Cisco router overheat. Cool things down with our Cisco 2821/2851 Router Replacement Chassis Fan. This fan is compatible with 2821 and 2851 routers. What makes this fan the right investment for your Cisco network? It will replace fan1 or fan2 (*1pc fan) in the chassis, so you can keep it in stock for whenever you need it most. These fans are all-new, third-party replacements.

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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.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• The CDC said it’s monitoring the worst avian influenza outbreak since 2015, which has devasted poultry farms along the East Coast and Midwest. Although the risk to humans remains low, the CDC said it will monitor those who’ve been exposed to domestic and wild species infected.
• President Biden met with NATO allies on Thursday in an emergency session about Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine as the conflict reached the one-month mark. The 30-member alliance gathered at its Brussels headquarters to talk about plans to beef up NATO troop rotations in countries along the southern portion of its eastern flank — and contingency plans in case Russian aggression intensifies.
• Alaska Airlines plans to convert two of its midlife Boeing 737-800s to add to its fleet of 737-700s cargo planes.
• Google and Spotify will release a future version of the Spotify app that will allow users to sign up inside the app to pay Spotify directly for a subscription.

Happy Wednesday! We’ve made it to the middle of the week. We hope that your week is going well! Are you dreaming of the weekend? We sure are!

In This Issue: Exciting Times! | Kendall Howard 15U | Wired vs Wireless Networks: Which is better? | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Exciting Times!

Happy Wednesday!

Hey CK Friends! I’m back! For those who are new, I recently had my second son who was born on 2/2/2022! Isn’t that a cool birthday to have? I must admit, I prayed for this birth date since finding out I was pregnant, so it’s not a huge surprise to me. 😊

The last 7 weeks have been amazing with my bundle of joy, and he is growing up so quickly. My older son (3 years old) is taking on the big brother role well and the love he has for his baby brother is unmatched.

In other news, I returned to work a tad bit earlier than expected as I was offered a career opportunity that I could not say no to. Though the last 7 years of working for CablesAndKits have been amazing, I was inclined to take a leap of faith and jump into a new role. This is not a goodbye, but a ‘see you soon’.

As you already know, the Customer Solutions Team are rockstars and are ready to serve you. They are an amazing group of ladies who have become more like family to me, and I know they have your best interest at heart. So next time you chat or talk to anyone on the team, get ready because they are definitely going to SERVE YOUR FACE OFF.

Shanyce

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The Kendall Howard 15U, 18″ Deep, Open Wall Rack design allows for maximum airflow and easy access. It can hold up to 130 lbs and is easy to install. It includes 25 x 10-32 rack screws. Made in the USA, the heavy-duty, high-quality, cold-rolled steel construction comes with a Lifetime Warranty.

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Learning Center Article – Wired vs Wireless Networks: Which is better?

When it comes to designing your network, you have to make one basic decision before you get to anything else. Do you want wireless connectivity? The truth is that wired and wireless networks offer significant pros and cons when compared to each other. It’s important to have a good appreciation of those pros and cons before committing to your network design or plan.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Adidas announced a new network that will allow more than 50,000 student-athletes to be paid ambassadors. They are the first major sports brand to create a name, image, and likeness network for college student-athletes.
• World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty has shocked the tennis world by announcing her retirement from the sport after winning three major singles titles in the last three years.
• Jamaica will begin the process of removing Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state after Prince William and Duchess Kate leave the country this week. It comes amid the Cambridges’ royal tour, which palace sources have described as a “charm offensive” to win over people of the Caribbean, where the queen remains the reigning monarch of eight countries.
• Two tornadoes sliced through the New Orleans area Tuesday night, the National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday morning, leaving in their wake destroyed homes, downed power lines and at least one person dead. Residents are waking up to the powerful storm’s destruction and nearly 4,000 remain without power

Happy Tuesday and Happy National Puppy Day! Today we celebrate the unconditional love and affection puppies bring. Their cuddles and wiggles make the world go round. Have you brought a new puppy into your family? We’d love to see a photo!

In This Issue: Never say never! | Cisco B200 M3 Server Blade | Single Mode vs Multimode Fiber Cables | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Never say never!

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! This is an exciting week for me as I’ll be heading to Lexington, SC on Thursday for the Palmetto 200 Relay Race. I ran this race back in 2016 and swore I’d never do it again, but here we are! Never say never! The race starts in Lexington and goes on for 205.44 miles until it ends in Mt. Pleasant which is just outside of Charleston, SC. It’s a relay race so the total distance is broken up into 36 “legs” of varying lengths. Runners will “pass the baton” (in this case, a wrist band) to another member of their team at each exchange zone. I’m on a team of 8 runners and will be completing 26 miles of the relay. The race starts at 5 AM on Friday and I actually feel quite fortunate that I get to run the first leg! Going first will help knock the nerves down and get some miles under my belt right away which is nice because every mile down is one less to go!

We will run all day Friday and through the night Saturday. I’ve got a leg that should start around 2 AM and another around 4 AM which I’m not exactly looking forward to, but if it was easy it wouldn’t be nearly as rewarding so I’m just going to try to make the best of it! If we calculated correctly, we should end up completing the race sometime shortly after 2 PM on Saturday! We’ll certainly be exhausted, but the memories made should be well worth it! We will stay in Charleston Saturday night which will be a nice treat! It’s one of my favorite cities with so much beautiful architecture, so much history, and so many amazing restaurants. We plan to explore a bit Saturday evening before crashing and hopefully sleeping for at least 10 hours!

Looking forward to the adventure!

Rebecca

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Today we’re taking a closer look at the Cisco B200 M3 Server Blade Build with 192GB Cisco Ram, two Cisco 300 GB Hard drives, two Intel E5-2690 Processors.

Servers are the workhorse of your network. They store your data, act as a web server, house your entire email library, run your applications, and occasionally act as your print server. When your computer dies and you lose all of your files, who is there? Your file server is there to save the day!

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Learning Center Article – Single Mode vs Multimode Fiber Cables

Fiber optics are essential for building the most capable networks, but when making design choices, there are plenty of options that serve fiber optics in general. One of the primary choices available to any network engineer exists between single-mode fiber and multimode fiber.

These are physically different approaches to fiber optics communication, and as such, they offer different strengths and weaknesses. To effectively choose the right design for your network, it helps to have a better understanding of what separates these types of cables.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• President Joe Biden said his administration is reiterating warnings about cyberattacks from Russia because of updated intelligence saying Russia is looking at options for possible attacks. One U.S. official, Anne Neuberger, said the government had seen preparatory activity but she declined to name industries that could be at risk.
• No bodies or survivors have yet been found from the China Eastern Airlines crash as of Tuesday morning. The domestic flight on a Boeing 737-800, which was carrying 132 people, nosedived Monday afternoon in the southern region of Guangxi, China’s aviation authority confirmed.
• Dating giant Match has launched a new app for single parents.
• Pfizer expects to start supplying the antiviral pills, Paxlovid, to UNICEF beginning next month and will continue to do so through the end of the year. Pfizer has also licensed Paxlovid through the Medicines Patent Pool, a U.N.-backed public health organization, which will allow other companies to produce a generic, low-cost version of the Covid treatment.

Happy Monday! We hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and was able to enjoy some time outside. Now that the weekend has come and gone, how’s your March Madness bracket looking? There are no perfect brackets left! Which upset shocked you the most?

In This Issue: Earliest Internet Memories | Cisco Meraki MX68 Security Appliance | All Wireless Standards are NOT Created Equal | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Earliest Internet Memories

Happy Monday! This weekend was pretty uneventful, but I did have a PC gaming night with some virtual friends. There were about 8 of us playing an immersive military simulation called Insurgency: Sandstorm.

Our group consists of a lot of parents, and we play together once or twice a month and it’s been a blast. It reminds me of LANs I used to have when I was in high school where we would physically bring our PCs to our friend’s houses to play games like Counter-Strike and StarCraft. My friends and I even met at LAN cafés aka PC Bangs (these were a thing in the early 2000s) where PCs were set up together with a T1 line and you could play games for an hourly rate. Internet speed has advanced so much these days that latency and lag are no longer an issue.

It’s amazing how much technology has advanced in the last 20 years. I distinctly remember the “you’ve got mail” sound from AOL back in the day when you had to use your modem tied to a telephone line to connect to the internet. I don’t think many people, especially in the newer generation (born after 2000) have telephone landlines! What are your earliest memories of the internet? I’m guessing some of you were born into the internet age and didn’t get to experience the joy/pain of dialup!

Cris

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The Cisco Meraki MX family of devices are multifunctional security & SD-WAN enterprise appliances that feature a wide range of capabilities to address a wide variety of use cases – from an all-in-one device. Organizations of all sizes and across all industries rely on the MX to deliver secure connectivity to hub locations or multi-cloud environments, as well as application quality of experience (QoE), through advanced analytics with machine learning.

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Learning Center Article – All Wireless Standards are NOT Created Equal

Everything is wireless these days so upgrading your Wi-Fi hardware is critical to future-proofing your network. When the time for new components is at hand, it is important to select the products that fully support your communication and data transfer needs. From fiber cabling to Wi-Fi routers, the choices abound and each one can have a direct impact on your overall network performance. Despite very similar nomenclature, the varying forms of 802.11 are all quite different.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president, was welcomed to the United Arab Emirates. He was alleged to have taken with him $169m, from his country’s treasury. Six months on, Khalid Payenda, once Ghani’s finance minister, is driving an Uber in Washington DC.
• Bad news for anyone trying to redownload some old DSi games or Wii titles via each consoles’ respective store channels: Currently, players report both channels are down and have been for a few days now. Many are now concerned the channels may not return, possibly locking away a lot of digital content that people owned and didn’t have a chance to download before the possible surprise shutdown.
• Epic Games has announced that all proceeds accumulated through its massively popular battle royale shooter Fortnite from March 20 to April 3 will be donated to Direct Relief in Ukraine.
• President Joe Biden will travel to Poland on Friday as part of his diplomatic efforts surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war, according to a White House statement late Sunday. “He will hold a bilateral meeting with President Andrzej Duda,” the statement from press secretary Jen Psaki indicated. “The President will discuss how the United States, alongside our Allies and partners, is responding to the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created.”

Happy Friday! We hope you had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend. We hope your weekend brings time with family/friends, rest, and lots of fun! If we can pray for you in any way, let us know!

In This Issue: Meet Cess! | Cat6 RJ45 110 Type Keystone Jack | How to Choose Ethernet Cables for Gaming | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Meet Cess!

My name is Princess, but you can call me Cess for short. I have been working in this industry for over 7 years. I have worked with Telco companies like AT&T and Comcast.

I am looking forward to imparting my skills to you, and I am excited to learn and grow with this company! I love spending time with my kids where we mostly watch movies. When I have “me time”, I like scrolling through online shopping apps and looking for things to buy!

Cess

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Product Spotlights & Updates

It may be small but it sure is mighty. This Cat6 RJ45 110 Type Keystone Jack supports both T568A and T568B wiring and uses the industry standard 110 interfaces. It is interchangeable with many industry brands, UL listed, and a 110 type punch down. It’s a tool that every technician should keep in their toolbox!

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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.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Paleontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, which once lived in a prehistoric ocean that covered part of what is now Peru.
• A 13-year-old was driving a pickup truck that crashed into a van carrying members of a New Mexico university’s golf teams, killing nine people in West Texas.
• The new Hogwarts Legacy game inspired by the famous Harry Potter book and movie series is coming to the Nintendo Switch.
• The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has declined Dolly Parton’s request to pull her nomination.

What a week! So much has happened since the beginning of the week but today is St. Patrick’s Day! Don’t forget to wear green and decorate with shamrocks. ☘️

In This Issue: Getting in the Spirit | HP ML350 Generation 8 | How to Calculate Power Consumption for your Server Room | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Getting in the Spirit

I have to admit I am completely thrown off on what day it is right now. Most people are dealing with adjusting to the time, but I am still adjusting to the days. I guess time off will do that to you especially when there is a time change in the middle of it.

After a very nice vacation and a few days away, it has been nice to get back into the swing of things with life and work since I got back Tuesday. Breaking away from the daily routine is nice but jumping back into it after that break is nice too, except for the part where you have to play catch up on emails. Haha! While digging out of the work I missed and washing clothes, I am trying to get myself motivated and encouraged with my health journey (especially after the vacation). The running has been a VERY slow progression back from the knee injury. It is still letting me know it is not 100% at times. I have a 5k race Saturday morning to test it out back on the road. I have been doing stretches and knee exercises like crazy. I am both excited and nervous about doing the race and my knee holding up. I don’t even have to place, I just want to finish it. Haha!

In the spirit of prepping for the race and trying to get my mind in the right place with the knee stuff, what are some motivational quotes that you go to for your mind to get in the right place, get pumped up, or be encouraged to push forward?

Make it an awesome Thursday!

Jason

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The ML350 G8 server is an up-gradable, performance-based, dual processor tower that delivers superior performance and expand-ability. The sixth iteration of the ML350 now has more memory capacity and hard drive compatibility than previous generations. The ML350 G6 has: (2) Intel Xeon E5-2609 (2.40GHz/4-Core/10MB/80W) processors, (9) expansion slots, and (24) DIMM slots. The ML350 G8 sever has a maximum memory of 768GB of ram.

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Learning Center Article – How to Calculate Power Consumption for your Server Room

When it comes to maintaining a server room, there are many balls to juggle. You have to constantly expand the capacity and throughput of the server systems. Demands only ever rise. At the same time, the space inside the room seems to perpetually shrink. Then, the ambient temperature rises, and you draw more and more power.

Read more here for tips for calculating server room power consumption.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Target has turned one of its into its most sustainable store. Solar panels on the roof and carports will power the entire store, from its refrigeration to its heating and air conditioning. It could become a new model for the national retailer, as it sets goals to reduce carbon emissions and works to signal to customers and investors that it’s serious about sustainability.
• DoorDash said it’s starting a gas rewards program to offset rising prices at the pump. The food delivery company is taking a different approach than Lyft and Uber, which are raising consumer costs to assist drivers. All U.S. delivery drivers will be eligible for 10% cash back on gas through a prepaid business Visa debit card.
• Netflix will soon launch a test letting primary account holders pay an additional fee for users outside their households — a new attempt by the company to address illicit password-sharing.
• NASA’s next-generation moon rocket is set to make a highly anticipated, slow-motion journey from an assembly plant to its launch pad in Florida for a final round of tests in the coming weeks that will determine how soon the spacecraft can fly.