An accident during maintenance of a San Jose, California, data center knocked the Cisco site offline for more than two hours Cisco blamed an outage that affected part of its Web site Wednesday on an accident during maintenance of a San Jose, California, data center.The company’s main www.cisco.com page was offline at 11 a.m. Pacific Time and stayed offline for more than two and a half hours. It returned at about 1:45 p.m. The networking company’s customers and channel partners use the Cisco Web site for support, ordering, and other functions.“We have traced the cause of the issue to an accident during maintenance of a San Jose data center that resulted in a power outage in that facility. We would like to thank our customers and partners for their patience. We expect to resolve the issue shortly,” Cisco said in a statement on its official blog, The Platform. The company earlier had blamed unspecified “facility issues.” The San Jose company, which makes much of the equipment that makes up the Internet, normally runs a tight ship on its site. According to uptime measurements from Pingdom.com, the site was down for only two minutes last month, and averages 99.94 percent uptime. Software Development