Happy Friday! We hope you had a wonderful week and are looking forward to the weekend. Do you have any weekend plans? For some of us, we’re grabbing the salt and sled, and crossing our fingers we actually get some snow!!
In This Issue: Snow ❄️ | Cisco 3850 Series PoE+ 48 Port Switch | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Snow ❄️
It’s Friday! I hope that each of you had a fantastic week! Here in Northeast Georgia, we’re preparing for the possibility of some winter weather. I’m generally not a fan of cold weather except when it snows. This typically happens no more than once each winter, which I’m ok with. We take the opportunity to make memories of playing in the snow. Now, after the snow melts, I’m ready for the warm weather and longer days of daylight to return!
How do you enjoy the snow? Sledding? Or building a snowman?
Chris
Product Spotlights & Updates
The Cisco 3850 Series of switches is an industry-leading, enterprise-class series of access switches that offers superior performance, scalability, and reliability. The Catalyst 3850 Series is the first to feature a built-in wireless controller with up to 40 Gbps of capacity on 48-port models. Further, it supports up to 100 access points and 2,000 wireless clients per switching entity (or stack). These switches are stackable up to 9 members and come equipped with Cisco’s popular StackPower technology.
Learning Center Article – Best Practices for Cable Management in Data Centers
Every network administrator in the world has a horror story about cable management. In data centers, those horror stories grow into genuine nightmares. If enough people work on a system for a long enough period of time, the cables will eventually turn into some type of Ethernet vine monster.
Only strict adherence to cable management practices can prevent this disaster. The best practices in this Learning Center article are aimed to help you avoid subtler missteps that occur frequently in modern data centers.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its vaccine-or-test requirements for large private companies.
- “Baby Shark” has become the first YouTube video to surpass 10 billion views.
- More than 350,000 people will get small payouts and 66,000 people will have their student loan debt canceled as part of a settlement between student loan company Navient.
- A forgotten well oil in West Texas has birthed a 100-Foot geyser.