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Wednesday September 13, 2006

Cisco Clogs Up Traffic

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You'd think that a company like Cisco, known for keeping network traffic flowing, would know better.

Today traffic from San Jose to Redwood City was badly snarled with the main bottleneck centered in Mountain View (California). Both directions of Highways 101 and 85 were parking lots and surface streets were equally impacted. At first the radio traffic reports could not find a cause, no accidents or construction reported anywhere. But soon the reason was known: Cisco had scheduled a company wide meeting of all 30,000 of its local employees at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View (next to Google and Sun's old corporate buildings).

The irony was not lost on me as I sat in traffic this morning. For a company whose job it is to get packets from here to there as quickly as possible, Cisco could have used some of its skills in routing (or at least carpooling) to avoid this mess.

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