Mukesh Chatter's company, Nexabit, created a terabit router, a kind of digital traffic cop on steroids.

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But if the show's traffic cop, Ryan Seacrest, is concerned, he's hiding it well.

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Hence orchestration, whereby a single controller coordinates the flow of information, like a traffic cop.

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The encounter became so one-way that you expected a traffic cop to step in and start to referee it.

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Part reporter, part traffic cop, the anchor holds it all together.

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Last week, a judicial panel playing the role of legal traffic cop heard arguments about how and where the Facebook lawsuits should be heard in court.

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Federal Reserve monetary policy acts as an economic traffic cop.

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"The risk of orchestrated systems--and the reason that we're all trying to move toward more choreography--is that you can get a bottleneck if the traffic cop can only handle so much traffic at one time, " says Page.

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