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How Cisco lost out in networking Battlestar Galactica

By John Cox , Network World , 04/04/2008
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The Sci-Fi Network series Battlestar Galactica starts its fourth and final season tonight and Network World has obtained a document written by a Cisco sales trainee describing his sales meeting with senior Galactica officials about upgrading the Galactica network. The author of this story would like to give special thanks to the devoted Battlestar Galactica fans at Battlestar Wiki, without whom this piece would not have been possible.

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The following document was recovered from a metal briefcase, originally from a Cisco regional sales office on Caprica, but subsequently found on the freighter Kima Huta, part of the refugee fleet after the Second Cylon War.

The document details Cisco’s final attempt to sell an integrated computer network to Colonial Fleet authorities as an upgrade to the nearly obsolete BS-75 (Galactica).

As is well known, Galactica was one of the few remaining Battlestar-class vessels without integrated networks, a bias derived from the original Cylon War, when the Cylons were able to seize control of defense systems by viral attacks.

The document is from a Cisco sales rep, reporting the results of his last meeting aboard Galactica with Commander (later Admiral) William Adama, and other ship officers, just a few months before the start of the Second Cylon War.

#### CISCO CONFIDENTIAL #####

This file was transmitted over an encrypted connection

Copy 1 of 1

Document ID: CQ3S02378-4075

To: A. Martin, VP/GM Quadrant 3 Sales, Chambers Building, Caprica

Fr: J. Cox, sales trainee, second class, Caprica

Re: Results of final Galactica Upgrade meeting

I regret to report that this meeting did not achieve the team’s objectives for our C 1.3 billion-cubit proposal to integrate Galactica’s archaic computer networks.

It was not my fault.

Though the failure to win approval is a disappointment, I must say that the project cost estimate did not adequately factor in the aggravation of being forced to work, however briefly, with the senior Galactica officers.

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SNA?By Anonymous on April 11, 2008, 5:05 pmBSG was an IBM/Big Blue shop all the way.

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Mildly amusingBy Anonymous on April 9, 2008, 4:00 pmMade me laugh a little, which I needed today so I give it a B.

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Who Won the BidBy Anonymous on April 9, 2008, 2:16 pmSo did Procurve win the Bid?

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Terrific article By Aline on April 9, 2008, 12:08 pmJohn: Thank you for the Battlestar Galactica article. It was a refreshing piece of creative writing that I forwarded to all my fellow Galactica fans. The Cisco...

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ScaryBy Anonymous on April 9, 2008, 11:11 amThis article was amusing for about 2 seconds. I feel sorry for the writer that he had nothing better to do with his time.

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