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Basketball court. seemed like an appropriate place to tack march madness or as kip calls it, march network madness. more than one-third of all companies will take action to prepare for it. some will even ban streaming video. explain then what's march network madness? >> it is when work is disrupted because not so much because people are distracted by the games which happens regardless of how your network works, but when other people who have aren't even interested in march madness have their jobs slowed down, they can't access e-mail, have trouble surfing the web because all these people are w...

Prepare for it. some will even ban streaming video. explain what is march network madness? >> it's when work is disrupted, not so much because people are distracted by the games, which happens regardless of how your network works, but when other people who aren't even interested in march madness have their jobs slowed down. they can't access their e-mail, they have trouble surfing the web because of all these people are watching video. >> reporter: in other words, it's when you've got a bunch of people sitting at desks who aren't working and streaming the games that could cause the company's i...

Crashes on the information superhighway. >> reporter: this is kip compton. >> well, it's really about planning and network design. >> reporter: he's got an engineering degree from m.i.t. and is a high-level executive at cisco. >> i'm the cto of video and collaboration. >> reporter: he knows what it takes to keep computer networks up and running, especially when they're being overtaken by data-hungry devices streaming ncaa basketball. >> it's almost like a traffic jam. you have wide open lanes and if you've got a lot of people streaming, you've got a lot of cars in the leap and it's going to sl...

>> reporter: this is wisconsin. >> really about planning and network design. >> reporter: he's got an engineering degree from m.i.t. and is a high-level executive at cisco. >> i'm ceo of video and collaborations. >> reporter: he knows what it takes to keep computer networks up and running, especially when they are being overtaken by data-hungry devices streaming ncaa basketball. >> it's almost like a traffic jam. you have wide-open lanes, but if you have a lot of people streaming, you have a lot of cars in the lane to slow things down. >> road is built to carry a certain number of cars. kind o...