Take a Network Break! Dunk your donut as we serve up a bounty of tech news, including Microsoft’s influence over hardware players, a new CEO for Cumulus Networks, and reports that Apple is designing its own servers.
China makes a massive chip investment, Cisco undertakes a company reorganization, Intel rethinks its production cycle, Finisar rolls out 25G optics, IDC pins a number on SD-WAN growth, and Citrix launches an SD-WAN/WAN optimization combo appliance.
You can find all the news links in our show notes below.

Sponsor: ITPro.TV
Check out itpro.tv/networkbreak t o upgrade your brain with the most popular I.T. certifications. Premium subscriptions are normally $57 a month or $570 per year, but we have a special offer: Try it FREE for 7 days when you sign up using our code NETWORKBREAK30 t o check out the courses, live stream, and more. You ll also receive 30% off the lifetime of your account. That s less than $40 per month or $399 for the entire year!
Show Notes:
Microsoft Moving Markets
Infinera falls, Ciena rallies after Microsoft’s optical conference remarks – Seeking Alpha
Microsoft SONiC Souring Arista s Secret Sauce, Sending Stock Down – Investors Business Daily
Cumulus Gets New Biz Boss
Cumulus Names New CEO – SDX Central
Apple’s Server Design
Report: Apple designing its own servers to avoid snooping – Ars Technica
Inside Apple’s Cloud Infrastructure Troubles – The Information
China’s Chip Ambitions
China Moves to Contend in Chip Making – Wall Street Journal
25G Optics
Finisar Introduces 25G Ethernet Optics for High Speed Data Centers and Drives Definition of PAM4 Optics Technology During OFC 2016 – Finisar
Cisco’s New Marching Orders
Cisco Is Shuffling 25,000 Employees Around In A Massive Reorg – Business Insider
Here’s the email Cisco’s CEO just sent to the troops to announce a big reorg – Business Insider UK
Intel Rethinks Production Cycle
Intel Moves Away From Tick-Tock Chip Production Cycle – eWeek
Strong SD-WAN Forecast
IDC Forecasts Strong Growth for Software-Defined WAN As Enterprises Seek to Optimize Their Cloud Strategies – IDC
Citrix Ties SD-WAN & WAN Optimization
Citrix Unleashes Industry-First Integrated Platform for SD-WAN – Citrix
Citrix Combines SD-WAN, WAN Optimization In Single Appliance – Packet Pushers