Monday, January 7
We arrived at the Flextronics facility around 8:30 and were greeted by Cisco and Flextronics employees to begin the first tour of our trip. After hearing from a number of managers on the background of Cisco and Flextronics as well as the unique partnership the two corporations share, we were broken up into 8 small groups and were given a very thorough tour of the massive facility where they produce many routers and servers such as the CRS-1 which a super server that could transfer the entire contents of The Library of Congress in just 4.6 seconds as well as connect 3 billion phone calls a second – this is due to the fact that the unit can process 1.2 TBPS (yup, that is Terra bytes!). We definitely felt that the red carpet was rolled out for us and we had a great time learning all about the manufacturing process of these amazing machines.
After our visit, we left Flextronics and Cisco and went to The County Line BBQ to have a dinner hosted by Dell. We arrived about an hour before the Dell employees so we all headed to the beautiful patio behind the restaurant that bordered a lazy river that meandered by the restaurant. When Dell arrived, dinner was served and we all ate like kings. Many among us enjoyed the local brew, Shiner Boch – hope to enjoy it again sometime soon. After dinner, we headed back to the hotel and then once again out to see 6th St. It was interesting being back on 6th St. The last time that I was in town was roughly 6 years ago on a cross-country road trip. My arrival in Austin on the road trip coincided with the opening night of the SXSW Festival – a truly amazing time in Austin. 6th St during that time was blocked off and packed end to end with thousands and thousands of people. This latest visit lacked the thousands of people, but there was still a very healthy night life (especially for a Monday night!) that was a lot of fun.
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