Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley.[3] Cisco develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.[4] Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as OpenDNS, WebEx, Jabber and Jasper, Cisco specializes into specific tech markets, such as Internet of Things (IoT), domain security and energy management.[5]
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| Industry | Networking hardware & software |
| Founded | December 10, 1984 in San Francisco, California, United States |
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| Headquarters | , United States[1] |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Products | List of Cisco products |
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Number of employees | 74,200 (2018)[2] |
| Subsidiaries | List of acquisitions by Cisco Systems |
| Website | cisco |
Cisco stock was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 8, 2009, and is also included in the S&P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index, NASDAQ-100 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock Index.[6]
Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two Stanford University computer scientists.[7] They pioneered the concept of a local area network (LAN) being used to connect geographically disparate computers over a multiprotocol router system. By the time the company went public in 1990, Cisco had a market capitalization of $224 million.[8] By the end of the dot-com bubble in the year 2000, Cisco had a more than $500 billion market capitalization.[9]
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Cisco's first router, the Advanced Gateway Server (AGS) router (1986)
John T. Chambers led Cisco as its CEO between 1995 and 2015. (Pictured at 2010 World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland).
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at Cisco, 2010
Former Portuguese President Cavaco Silva, former Cisco CEO John Chambers and Cisco Senior Director of Innovation Helder Antunes, during the 2011 presidential visit to the US
Cisco IP Phone 8851
Cisco headquarters in the North San Jose Innovation District
In 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton awarded Cisco the Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence, which was presented in Jerusalem by Ambassador James B. Cunningham to Cisco Senior Manager Zika Abzuk.
Cisco Live 2007 in Anaheim, California. Cisco Live is the company's annual exposition and conference.
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References
- ↑ "Contact Cisco". Retrieved March 1, 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Cisco Systems, Inc. 2018 Annual Report Form (10-K)" (PDF). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
- ↑ ""Cisco, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Sep 12, 2012"" (PDF).
- ↑ "Cisco, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Sep 12, 2012" (PDF). secdatabase.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Cisco Systems | 2021 Fortune 500". Fortune. Archived from the original on 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
- ↑ Browning, E.S. (June 1, 2009). "Travelers, Cisco Replace Citi, GM in Dow". Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Company, Inc). https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124386244318072033. Retrieved June 2, 2009.
- ↑ Toscano, Paul (2013-04-17). "Tech Companies Are Doing It Wrong: Cisco Co-Founder". www.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
- ↑ "Cisco ascends to most valuable company". CNET. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
- ↑ "Cisco pushes past Microsoft in market value". CBS Marketwatch. March 25, 2000. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/cisco-pushes-past-microsoft-market/story.aspx?guid=%7BFA6BADEF%2D05F2%2D4169%2DADDA%2D12E9D17C4433%7D. Retrieved January 25, 2007.
