The fine, though relatively small, is bound to give more ammunition to the anti-high frequency trading crowd, which is demanding regulators do something to stop this specializedform of computer trading, or at the very least slow it down.
Over the last 20 years, Cisco has come to dominate the business of routers and switches--the specialized computers that shuttle packets of data around a network, and form the backbone of the Internet--and about two thirds of its revenue comes from sales of those devices.