Cisco has over 40 buildings in the San Jose area. The author visited Building 24 and took photos of the campus including the landscaping, logo, and clusters of buildings. They also visited the Doc Lab, known for its innovative concepts, and met with the lab manager. The author notes seeing old friends from Cisco who are involved in music and the arts with their families in the Silicon Valley area.

2. One of the 40+ ? Cisco buildings in the San Jose area Bldg 24 is across this road opposite Homestead – which is the “ Adda” for most of us visitors – including Infosys@cisco, Wipro@cisco... Etc, etc…

3. Further up across this road Cisco bldg 24 “compound”

4. Sidewalk Bldg 24 across the Road.

5. Bldg 24 Frontispiece.

6. Did you know silicon valley used to be called “The Valley of Heart’s Delight.” - full of fruit and flowers… Read the books Dot Dead (new – born of the dotcom success & nostalgic about the olden golden days) and Silicon Valley Fever (1985 – full of the futuristic e-promise that was yet to come) To get 2 different perspectives.

7. How they keep the lawns green and lovely – in front of any Cisco office

8. The typical Cisco cluster – difficult to keep track of and count of…

9. The familiar logo

10. Go straight look for SanDisk and turn right for Tasman Drive Cisco’s Corporate Address Bookmark the VT rail line crossing

11. Mountain view??? Actually the Mt Hamilton Range upper right of Milpitas

12. Same mountains, viewed from Bldg 16 (which is SPTG where Sushma sits) Near Shawnna’s office in the 4 th floor. The lower road leads to the VT rail stop… I think.

13. Must be the cluster that contains Bldg 24 – very easy to forget.

14. Meet the E-Lobby Ambassador. Press the button to interact with her/him. Can remix the bollywood song to This happens only in Cisco…

15. Picture says more than a 1000 words… doesn’t it… We are associated with one of the 2 landmarks.

16. Guess what? One of the neatest in looks and coolest in concepts – yes it is the Famed Doc Lab

17. Guess who? James Hensperger – the Doc Lab Manager

18. Touch the cards

19. Name this… GSR 12k I think

20. Name this… I see the numbers 7600…?

21. Tidy for a lab…

22. Bldg 16 – SPTG.

23. With the lovely kids of my friends Bala and Jayanthi.

24. Jayanthi Ganesan (GJ) Who talked to Javier the repairman in her 1 st year in CA thus… “ Are you Jayvier” No no… I Havier… you… Hayanthi? No no me Jayanthi…  get the general ‘ja’ becoming ‘ha’ funda right?

25. Bala – is a Synopsian HDL* guru & technical author of an HDL text – also top class Guitarist – Knopfler fan who can go karnatic with the guitar. Jayanthi – special faculty for the hearing challenged, Puja(tall) and Manya(chutki) * HDL = Hardware description language.

27. Some things money can buy… Some are priceless….

28. Puja – budding musician. Click to listen to her sing Maitreem Jagatham – the song composed by the Kanchi Shankaracharya (senior) for the peerless MS to sing at the UN – the theme is Unity of the world – shed war shed competition – yuddham tyajata spardham tyajata…. Indian kids in the Valley… who are into the arts come across as well grounded, non-brash, friendly - a nice combination of Indian and American

29. The Cable people Shilpa (ex Divyasree) Vandana Krishnan and Santa Dasu (an old friend of mine who Is SW lead for RF gateway and is a carnatic style veena exponent)

30. The cable lab RF Switch

31. The cable lab Santa and her work-platform the RF Gateway. One of her pet projects off work is a non-profit organization called Yuva Bharathi which supports Indian music and dance in the Bay… CA…

32. RF Switch RF GW

33. Cable Dev…

35. Don’t compare…contrast… Time takes its toll 2008 to 1990…that is as far back as these memories go L2R - Surekha, Shashi, Jaya, Santa, don’t remember name, Sumana Rao (whose husband is an ATM guru and cofounder of Cerent which got acquired by Cisco.)

36. Shashi Arja now Dev manager (NMTG – IP Telephony in Cisco Shashi Arja – then In EnT CMC – Vande Mataram for the commonwealth trainees

38. “ local orchards and dairies replaced by tilt-up buildings filled with software engineers.” “ Still the changes are definitely not all for the better. When I went to Palo Alto High, the parents of classmates included school teachers, custodians, and shop owners, not just the venture capitalists, executives, lawyers, and doctors who are the parents today. Back in those days, we left our front doors unlocked. My mother dried apricots in the backyard every year. I can’t help missing those days and wonder why Silicon Valley should end up here, in the midst of some of the world’s most fertile farmland. Still, I feel awfully lucky to have grown up in the “good old days.” From the book “Dot Dead”

39. I thought of Erin Brokovich… Khatron se khelna… Zindagi ka doosra naam

40. Silicon valley dates back to the post world war 1 Atlanta dates back to the years before the American civil war. Those who read “Gone with the wind” Will be interested to know that the writer of the story and the story itself are all about Atlanta. Packs a big history punch… Also home to the “liquid symbol of capitalism” – coca cola Jimmy Carter, Georgia Tech and Martin Luther King… But the pictures after this are not important. All indoors…

41. living room The carpeting is supposed to be llama skin… SPCA!

42. Aloe vera in the sun room (same house)

43. Dining area – nobody eats here ppl prefer to carry their plates away

44. Pretty plenty picture

47. Just to show folks at home that the washer and drier are kept separate.

48. clutter.

49. That’s all. Thanks for viewing. Will do better another time.