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In This Issue: Core Values | Cisco Meraki Cloud Managed Switch | What are Ferrari-Style Ethernet Cables? | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Core Values
Core Values are what make us who we are and drive our everyday decisions. It’s important to us that you know who we truly are at our core. Below are our core values:
Do the Right Thing: We do the right thing even when no one is watching. We abide by the highest moral and ethical standards and conduct ourselves with integrity and honesty.
Honor Our Commitments: When we say we will do something we will make every effort to follow through on those promises. This builds trust internally with our employees and externally with our customers, vendors, and partners.
Build Processes The Don’t Fail: We encourage and celebrate continuous improvement. Our goal is to build systems and processes that are well developed, thoroughly tested, and sustainable to ensure that we keep our commitments.
Make it About Relationship: Relationship with our employees, customers, vendors, partners, and community is at the heart of why we do business. We act with an “I’m for you” mentality and perpetually seek ways to assist and help others. We put the relationship first.
Be a Model: By incorporating the first four core values in our daily activities, we desire to run our business in such a way that we inspire other businesses to be the best version of themselves and continually grow, improve, and operate in excellence and integrity.
Product Spotlights & Updates
The Meraki MS225-48FP is a cloud-managed access layer switch that features (48) 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet ports as well as (4) 10G SFP+ uplinks. This switch supports both virtual stacking and physical stacking (compatible with MS210 series switches). Each switch includes dual stacking interfaces with up to 80 Gbps of stacking bandwidth. As with all Meraki switches, this switch allows for simple management, and zero-touch provisioning, and features various security enhancements. Get excellent performance with a switching capacity of 176 Gbps.
Learning Center Article – What are Ferrari-Style Ethernet Cables?
Managing data centers and comparably powerful networks comes with a slew of daily challenges. The need for redundancy and absolute uptime can force any administrator to expend copious resources on equipment and manpower. As a consequence, you will always be looking for ways to relieve this strain. You’ll find opportunities in every nook and cranny of your operation, but many admins completely miss one of the easiest sources of gain. A simple switch or upgrade in your Ethernet cables can boost your cost-efficiency in several surprising ways.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain set out from the port of Odesa under an internationally brokered deal to unblock the embattled country’s agricultural exports and ease the growing global food crisis.
- The discovery of an extinct panda that roamed the forests and swamps of Europe millions of years ago could reignite debate about whether the ancestors of China’s iconic national animal actually came from Europe.
- A Utah wildfire that erupted amid summer heat and relatively dry conditions may have been started by a man trying to burn a spider with a lighter.
- Nintendo’s latest financial report for Q1 2023 has been published, and the Switch has just surpassed 111 million units sold.