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In This Issue: There’s No Place Like Home | RJ11 Straight Modular Telephone Cable | Understanding OLT, ONU, ONT, and ODN for Fiber | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – There’s No Place Like Home
Good Morning Everyone,
These last few weeks have been full of adventure. I was able to go back to Atlanta for a wonderful company meeting and while I was there, I spent time with family and friends. I am a very social person so being able to see most of the CK family was super refreshing. We all got to catch up and spend some time with each other without the bounds of our screens. It was a blast getting to know the team better and soaking up the knowledge and experiences that everyone has to offer. It makes me truly grateful to be a part of such an amazing company!
I also was able to spend some time with my 3-month-old God son. I missed the last 2 months of his life because of my relocation, so I had to make up for the lost time. We were together almost every day! He was even able to spend some time with my grandparents, which was amusing. It was amazing to watch them together. He was such a joy to be around! I love being around babies and was super excited for my best friend when she told me she was expecting. I was able to plan her baby shower and spend some time with her when he was first born which was a joy! But, nothing compared to seeing him laugh and smile and even cry! He is such an angel; such a pure-hearted gift.
On top of spending time with my precious God son, I was also able to hang out with friends which made my schedule super busy! We went to so many restaurants, forcing me to crank up my gym routine lol! But, I am so glad to finally be back home. I really missed my fiancé and my cat. I think they really missed me too because the fridge was basically empty haha! Now, it’s back to my routine and time to try out some of the wonderful recipes that were shared with me. It feels good to be home!
Joi
Product Spotlights & Updates
Use this RJ-11 silver satin cable to connect a computer or phone to a telephone line. Straight-through-pinned modular cables are used for RS232 modular adapters for dumb-terminal hook-ups and other serial/parallel extension applications.
Learning Center Article – Understanding OLT, ONU, ONT, and ODN for Fiber
As the industry for fiber optical networking continues to grow, one corner of the market is pushing innovation and development, and understanding this could help you with your own network designs.
This area is known as fiber to the home (FTTH), and it’s now a major aspect of broadband internet service. As the name implies, these are unpowered optical networks that provide fast, reliable signals that split from a single source to many destinations. In order to make such designs work, there are a few essential features known as OLT, ONU, ONT, and ODN. You will see each of them explained below.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday voted to advance legislation that would give President Joe Biden the authority to ban TikTok, the viral video app owned by China’s ByteDance that’s been swiping market share from social media stalwarts.
- Mortgage rates moved higher again last week, pushing buyers back to the sidelines just as the spring housing market is supposed to be heating up. Mortgage applications to purchase a home dropped 6% last week compared with the previous week. Volume was 44% lower than the same week one year ago, and is now sitting at a 28-year low.
- SpaceX launched four people to the International Space Station from Florida as Elon Musk’s company begins the final of the original six missions awarded by NASA.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday for the first time since the war in Ukraine began more than a year ago. The brief contact on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in New Delhi marks a significant moment as high-level engagements between the United States and Russia have become exceedingly rare since the start of the war last February. Blinken and Lavrov’s meeting comes amid some of the most heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow in decades.