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In This Issue: Summer Nights | Cisco 3850 Series Switches | Wifi 6 vs Wifi 6E | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Beating the Heat!
Good morning everyone and Happy Wednesday! I don’t know about you but I am exhausted this week. Between traveling and saying up later in the evening to soak up these beautiful summer nights, I’ve been waking up needing a full pot of coffee to get me through the day.
Even though I am exhausted I have enjoyed the time outside playing yard games, building community with neighbors, or just enjoying the calmness of the night. How are you soaking up these summer nights? What are you looking forward to now that most of us have officially kicked off the summer?
Ashley
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. StackPower is an innovative power-sharing and redundancy technology that allows members of the stack to share in one of two power pooling topologies.
Learning Center Article -Wifi 6 vs WiFi 6E
Wi-Fi is ever-present in the modern world. You need it, and you can’t get away from it, and since everyone uses it, Wi-Fi networks get very crowded. Wi-Fi 6 was designed to help alleviate this crowding, and it works. Now, Wi-Fi 6E is available, and it offers dramatic improvements in this regard.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Target, Gap, Walmart, and others that had scrambled to stock their shelves early in the pandemic are now sitting on $45 billion in inventory they need to move, up 26% from the same period last year. Walmart’s 32% jump in inventory in Q1 was “higher than we want,” CEO Doug McMillon admitted last month. What happened: In trying to solve one problem (Covid-related shortages), retailers created another (a surplus of the kinds of goods people don’t want to buy right now).
- In a ruling, a California court said last week that bees are legally fish. The new classification protects bees—and other insects—under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA), and is the culmination of a four-year legal tussle between environmentalists and agriculture groups that has major consequences for farmers in the state.
- Garys are endangered. Just 252 babies were named Gary in the US in 2021, despite it peaking as the 14th most popular name in the 1940s. So what caused the spike back then? Many attribute it to the popularity of film star Gary Cooper, who adopted the name “Gary” after his agent’s hometown of Gary, Indiana. So, in effect, all Garys are named after Gary, Indiana.
- Mortgage demand falls to the lowest level in 22 years, applications for a mortgage to purchase a home fell 7% for the week and were 21% lower than the same week one year ago. Refinance demand dropped 6% for the week and was down 75% year over year.