It’s the 100th episode of Network Break! Thanks to our listeners for helping the show to grow and for joining us each week to eat virtual donuts and opine on tech and networking news.
We’re looking ahead to the next hundred episodes, so if you’ve got feedback on how we can improve, topic suggestions, ideas for guests, or anything else you’d like to tell us, please drop a line at packetpushers@gmail.com or leave a comment in the show notes.
And of course we have a ton of tech news, including the latest from Cisco, Nutanix, Google, Open vSwitch, HPE, Arista, and Intel.

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Show Links:
Cisco beats earnings but plans to cut 5,500 jobs – Business Insider
Cisco Says It Will Cut Thousands of Jobs Amid Revamp – Fortune
Nutanix scoops Cisco. Everyone s really happy…but Cisco is strangely quiet about it – The Register
Nutanix Software Now Runs on Cisco UCS – Nutanix
Nutanix and Cisco UCS: On Responsibility and Change – Nutanix
Google to secretly test wireless internet delivery in Silicon Valley cities where Google Fiber is delayed – SiliconBeat
Google Fiber is on hold as the future of blazing Internet turns toward wireless tech – MIT Technology Review
Open vSwitch is now a Linux Foundation Project – Packet Pushers
Open Source Explodes Enterprise Procurement – Light Reading
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Acquire SGI to Extend Leadership in High Growth Big Data Analytics and High Performance Computing – SGI
Arista in Q2 2016 – Arista PDF
ARM Processors: ARM IP and Intel Custom Foundry – ARM Connected Community
Intel rolls out silicon photonics for data centers – Optics.org
Joule – Intel
Curie – Intel
Intel CEO Introduces Vision for Merged Reality at 2016 Intel Developer Forum – Intel