Take a Network Break! Facebook announces new switches under the Open Compute Project banner, including support for Cumulus and a model from Arista.

F5 buys NGINX for $670 million, NVIDIA buys Mellanox for $6.9 billion, and Citrix investigates a possible breach of its corporate network.

Big Switch demonstrates a network OS that combines Open Network Linux and Sonic, Facebook suffers an outage across multiple platforms, and the city of Tel Aviv tests new crosswalk lights designed to catch the attention of people whose faces are glued to their smartphones.

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Reinventing our data center network with F16, Minipack – Facebook Code

Arista 7368X4 Series – Arista

NGINX to Join F5: Proud to Finish One Chapter and Excited to Start the Next – NGINX

F5 Networks –4.9% as analysts eyeball Nginx purchase deal – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) – Seeking Alpha

A Letter to F5 Employees from CEO François Locoh-Donou Announcing NGINX Acquisition – F5

NVIDIA to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9 Billion – NVIDIA Newsroom

Nvidia to make largest acquisition in its history with $6.9 billion deal for Mellanox – MarketWatch

Iranian-backed hackers ransacked Citrix, swiped 6TB+ of emails, docs, secrets, claims cyber-biz – The Register

Citrix investigating unauthorized access to internal network – Citrix Blogs

Big Switch to Demo SONiC with Open Network Linux at OCP Global Summit – Big Switch

It’s alive! Big Switch stitches together an open-source Network Operating System – The Register

Tel Aviv tries out new crosswalk lights for cellular addicts – Reuters