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I’m sure many of us need an extra cup of coffee this morning to keep us awake today after staying up to watch the National Championship Game! Congrats to the Dawgs who were finally able to beat Bama after 41 years!

In This Issue: Marathon Scenery | Keystone Surface Mount Box, 2 Port | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Marathon Scenery

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! Who watched the game last night?! That one had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, but I’m so glad the best team prevailed! GO DAWGS!

Anyways, hope you are having a great start to the week! This is an exciting week for me as not only did my team win the National Championship, but I’m counting down the days until Sunday when I’ll be running a marathon on Jekyll Island! I ran a marathon last year and tried to push myself to get a decent time, but for this one, I’m running it with a friend and we’re in it just to have fun and enjoy the scenery!

The majority of the course runs along the perimeter of the island so we should have some incredible views along the way! We’ve put in months of work preparing for this day and it’s crazy to think that it’s almost here! I’m super excited about it, and also super excited about all the carbs I’ll be eating this week! 😉

Rebecca

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Give your network a makeover! These attractive boxes will perfectly blend into your home or office decor, and can hold a multitude of jacks. The Unloaded 2-Position Keystone Surface Mount Box is the easiest way to install a network outlet, is perfect for office cubicles or installations where the cable is run along a baseboard. It also protects and hides your network connections!

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Learning Center Article – What is Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing Technology?

No matter what kind of network you maintain, you always have the same demands: more speed, less cost, and larger capacity. For any network with heavy demands on data and/or distance, this always results in implementing fiber optics. This is technology that grows and shifts every day, and it can be exhausting to stay on top of the mountains of information out there.

To help with that, a few simple explanations of popular fiber optic tech can make your life a lot easier. In that effort, today’s lesson is on CWDM technology. It’s one of several fiber optic cable choices, and it can fill many roles.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• The Georgia Bulldogs won their first Division I football title since the 1980 season, upsetting the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide, 33-18 in the College Football Playoff National Championship.
• A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.
• Americans with private insurance will be able to ask for reimbursement for rapid COVID-19 tests beginning Saturday — but any tests purchased before January 15 will not qualify.
• Planet Fitness will soon acquire Sunshine Fitness, in an $800 million deal.

As we kick off the second week of 2022, it’s the perfect time to clean off all the random papers, sticky notes, etc. from your desk to celebrate National Clean Off Your Desk Day! A clean workspace helps improve our productivity and inspires us, too!

In This Issue: Honor our Commitments | Cisco 4-Port Single-Wide 10/100 EtherSwitch Card | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Honor our Commitments

Happy Monday morning! I knocked out a list of things that I’ve been putting off for a while this weekend, mostly little things that I’ve just been too “busy” or lazy to get to. I didn’t particularly enjoy doing those things (one of them was cleaning out a neglected duck shelter), but after I got those little annoying chores done, it felt great! I asked myself why I didn’t get these things done sooner and couldn’t really find a great answer.

Something that I’m wanting to do more lately is to not delay getting things done. Delaying seems to hold things back for me and clutters my mind. One of the core values at CK is “Honor our commitments”. As I was getting those pesky chores done, this value came up, and I realized honoring commitments does not only apply to honoring commitments to others, but also to oneself. You’re really doing a disservice to yourself if you aren’t keeping the promises that you make to yourself. So, my encouragement to you is if you told yourself you need to get stuff done, then don’t delay and make excuses, just get it done and you’ll feel a ton better afterwards.

Here’s a little Monday motivation for you – Enjoy!

Cris

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The 4-port Cisco 10/100 HWIC-4ESW is supported on the Cisco 1800 (modular), Cisco 2800, and Cisco 3800 series integrated services routers and offers Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing capabilities in one module.

Cisco EtherSwitch HWICs are 10/100 Layer 2 Ethernet switches with Layer 3 routing capability. Traffic between different VLANs on a switch is routed through the router platform. Any one port on a Cisco EtherSwitch HWIC may be configured as a stacking port to link to another Cisco EtherSwitch HWIC or EtherSwitch network module in the same system. An optional power module can also be added to provide inline power for IP telephones.

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Learning Center Article – Benefits of Blade Servers in Your Data Center

No matter the type of business or application, when you need a server, you have to choose from an extensive list of options. Finding the right way to design and maintain your servers is an undertaking.

While you weigh your options, it’s worth your time to take a closer look at blade servers. They are designed to save space, but that description hardly does them justice. A quick review of the top five benefits of blade servers in data centers makes their value clear.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Bob Saget, a stand-up comedian and actor beloved for his role as Danny Tanner on the 1990s sitcom “Full House”, has died at the age of 65.
• Crocs sales were up 42% in the 4th quarter.
• As a test, Pizza Hut restaurants in Canada are adding Beyond Meat’s plant-based sausage to their menus.
• Pixar’s “Turning Red” will skip theaters and head straight to Disney+ this March.

Happy Friday! You’ve officially conquered the first week of the new year! It may have been an unexpected week for some, but we are praying that this year is full of joy and accomplished goals.

In This Issue: Good Health | 3ft Black CAT6 Ethernet Patch Cables, Easyboot | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Good Health

Happy New Year, folks!

We all had some much-needed time off writing for the CK Daily during December while sending out the 20 Days of Giving. I am excited to share with you all again in this new year!

My start to the year has been a little different than in years past. I started the new year being sick, which I know many people did as well! I’m now on the mend and am glad I can sit at my desk to write this CK Daily. 😊 I’ve come to realize that I’m the most thankful for good health in the days after I’ve gotten better. I guess that’s how it works; we don’t fully realize what we have until we don’t have it anymore. What are you thankful for this year as you start the new year?

Happy new year!

Chris

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Product Spotlights & Updates

We just saved you a ton of time and made managing your network cabling a whole lot easier! Introducing our EASYboot ethernet patch cables. These snagless Category 6 (Cat6) patch cords have skinnier cable boots to make it easier to connect and disconnect the cable, as well as to prevent the cable from catching when pulled through tight spaces. Built to last, our high-quality Ethernet cables are pure copper for maximum throughput and reliability. Individually bagged and labeled in retail packaging, these Cat6 cables are easy to store and the length and type are easily identifiable.

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Learning Center Article – Tips for Maintaining Your Server

Servers are powerful in every sense of the word, in fact, they can hum for 24 hours a day, seven days a week without having any issues. However, their efficiency can be reduced drastically or even cut short completely if they are deprived of proper maintenance. You can avert server failure or a major disaster by simply having a regular check-up on them. Hiring a server management solution is the easiest and worry-free way to go.

Read more here to learn more tips for maintaining your server.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• The German automaker unveiled a new concept vehicle called the iX Flow with “E Ink” that can change colors.
• Bed Bath & Beyond continues to shut underperforming locations. The company released a list of 37 locations spread across 19 states where liquidation sales have already kicked off and the shops are expected to close by the end of February.
• A 105,000-square-foot Los Angeles megamansion known as “The One” listed Friday for $295 million, making it the most expensive listing in the U.S.
• A hockey fan pointed out a cancerous mole on a staff members neck at a hockey game and was awarded a $10,000 medical school scholarship from the team.

Could you imagine what the world would be without technology? In our daily lives, we can’t take a step without coming into contact with a form of it. All this to say… Happy Technology Day!

In This Issue: Make this Year Yours | Cisco Aironet 2700 Series Access Point | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Make this Year Yours

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and holiday time.

By now, we all have hit the ground running in 2022. While it would be easy for us to be apprehensive about 2022 after 2020 and 2021, we have to take the bull by the horns and make this year what we want it to be. I am personally excited about the freshness of a new year to make the most of it.

I have started re-reading “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. In one chapter where it talks about habit #2, “Begin With the End in Mind”

“Because we already live with many scripts that have been handed to us, the process of writing our own script is actually more a process of “rescripting,” or paradigm-shifting – of changing some of the basic paradigms that we already have. As we recognize the ineffective scripts, the incorrect or incomplete paradigms within us, we can proactively begin to rescript ourselves.”

For me, I realize that I need to change some of my short-term (daily/weekly) and long-term (monthly/yearly/life) scripts that I have been handed or even created myself over the years that are ineffective. Instead of going through the motions of activity and playing the scripts automatically, I have started stopping and asking myself, “Is this really what I want or need to do to reach my goal or be the person I want to be…today, tomorrow, next month, next year?” It will take a while, but it is refreshing to STOP doing things instead of just starting new things on top of stuff that does not benefit me.

Have a great Thursday, everyone!

Jason

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The Cisco 2700 series of access points are ideal for mission-critical high-density environments. The 2700 series was designed for office environments. The sleek design and internal antennas (some units) create a seamless look. The 2700 series access points have the ability to reach 450-Mbps data rates and are backed by 802.11ac or Wave 1 technology. This connection is theoretically able to have a connection rate of 1.3 Gbps. With 802.11n and MIMO technology, the 2600 series access points deliver the speed and expand-ability that you expect.

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Learning Center Article – Rack Solutions for Your Data Center: Benefits of Racks & Cabinets

Setting up a data center network requires careful planning and meticulous execution. Everything has to be right or you hit bottlenecks and errors. The planning has to go so far as to pick the right resources for mounting your electronic equipment.

It’s easy to brush this off as unimportant, but the wrong mounting hardware can increase costs, create heating problems or lead to critical vulnerabilities in your infrastructure. Take a minute to read the most popular options and what they have to offer a data center in terms of pros and cons.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Tech company, Bolt, has decided to give employees a 4-day workweek permanently.
• Two winning Powerball tickets recently sold for $632 million.
• WeChat, China’s largest messaging app and one of the country’s biggest payment services, will begin supporting the digital yuan.
• Roofing giant takes on Tesla to make solar roof shingles more affordable. Read more here.

Are you happier than a camel on a Wednesday? Must be because it’s HUMP DAAYY! This video will never get old, so we had to debut it for the first week of 2022.

In This Issue: Not Your Typical Year | Kendall Howard 2U Wall Mount V-Rack | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Not Your Typical Year

Happy first Wednesday of 2022!

We’ve made it through the first half of the first week of the month and year! Wow, time is already flying- we might as well say it’s February! At least that’s how I feel nowadays.

I am currently preparing to have my second child the first week of February, so things have been a bit crazy in my world. Between nesting/cleaning my home, attempting to stay away from COVID-19 to preparing my work team for my absence, I have been running around like a chicken without its head.

Typically, January is a time where I spend my time actively working on the plans that I’ve set for myself and basically get the ball rolling. Although this is still my plan, I am attempting to juggle 3-4 balls at the same time with precision and grace. Now, will I probably look like a circus clown to others? Most likely, but hey, as long as I keep all the balls in the air, I will call it a success.

How has your year started out? 2022 has already proven to not be a typical year but we still have time to get things in order!

Shanyce

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The Kendall Howard V-Rack allows users to vertically or horizontally mount servers or other rack-mountable devices regardless of depth. They are designed to mount on a wall or under a desk and provide users with more versatility in equipment placement. Pretty sweet, right? Snag one today!

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Learning Center Article – The Right Ethernet Cable for the Right Network

An efficient Ethernet cable management plan, especially in high-density and challenging network environments, increases the versatility of network maintenance and operation. It also contributes to the system’s uptime and lowers operation costs, which makes your life a whole lot easier!

Read more here about the right ethernet for your network.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• KFC restaurants nationwide will add Beyond Meat’s plant-based chicken to menus.
• Sony confirmed its new hardware will be called PlayStation VR2. The headset will work with Sony’s PlayStation 5 console.
• Chrysler plans to reinvent itself as an all-electric vehicle brand by 2028
• Walmart and Kroger raised the price of Abbott’s at-home Covid-19 test kit after an agreement with the White House to sell the tests at a reduced price expired.

Today is National Trivia Day and there’s nothing more thrilling than knowing the answer to all the questions when you’re watching Jeopardy! Take a look at some of the questions that stumped this year’s top contestants.

In This Issue: Working with your Hands | Cisco Original UCS 146GB 6G SAS 15K RPM SFF | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Working with your Hands

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas & New Year! I took some time off work over the holidays and tried to truly disconnect so that I could get a mental “reset” and come back refreshed and ready to tackle some big goals in 2022! I spent a good portion of my time off working on some little projects around the house that allowed me to get away from a computer screen and work with my hands which was really quite enjoyable! I was talking with a friend recently who read an article about how people who “work with their minds” oftentimes take up hobbies that allow them to work with their hands. I thought that was interesting, but I can totally believe it! I always find it to be somewhat therapeutic!

Anyways, I am happy to be back to work and getting back into a routine! Similar to what Cris said yesterday, I am not one for setting resolutions for the new year. I do have some goals that I’m looking to achieve this year, though! I hope you all are off to a wonderful start to the new year and are feeling refreshed and ready to crush your goals (or resolutions) as well!

Rebecca

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Product Spotlights & Updates

CablesAndkits is proud to offer the best of both worlds, Cisco, HP, and Dell hard drives. These hard drives are HP and Dell original. The SAS hard drives operate in a state of the art performance for hosting high transaction applications. The SAS hard drives are available in 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) and come in a wide selection of storage capacities. Each hard drive is wiped of previous information and is fully tested.

When you purchase a hard drive from CablesAndkits, you are backed by our industry-leading advanced replacement lifetime warranty. – Yes, we do mean FREE hard drive replacement.

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Learning Center Article – Your Guide to Cisco Catalyst Switches

A network is only as effective as its weakest link. When you have heavy demands, you need good options to meet and exceed those demands. Cisco has been providing top-quality options for every network design for decades.

This overview will introduce you to some of the most common, versatile, and widely-used switches Cisco has to offer.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Tesla officially announced it has opened a dealership in Xinjiang, China.
• Fanatics has acquired sports trading card company Topps for $500 million.
• Ford officially beat out Tesla as the top growth auto industry stock in 2021.
• The U.S. reported a record number of new Covid cases on Monday, with over 1 million new infections.