Outage on Cisco site today?

Report says site down 1-2 hours

Cisco's Web site reportedly suffered a 1 to 2 hour outage today while content was being updated. According to The Register, attempts to access the site at 3pm London time -- 10am EST -- were met with an error message:

"An error occurred while processing your request. Reference #97.320dd58.1249393806.999942"

Attempts to access the site by Cisco Subnet at 9am EST were unsuccessful as well. Cisco Subnet experienced approximately 40 minutes of service interruption from cisco.com.

A Cisco representative in the UK said it was being updated, according to The Register.

All systems seem to be go now, but The Register raises a valid point: Cisco did not set a good example for business continuity during this period.

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Jim Duffy has been covering technology for over 28 years, 23 at Network World. He covers enterprise networking infrastructure, including routers and switches. He also writes The Cisco Connection blog and can be reached on Twitter @Jim_Duffy and at jduffy@nww.com.