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Cisco Systems, Inc.

Building 10 of the Cisco San Jose Main Campus
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: CSCO NASDAQ-100 component DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component
Industry	Networking hardware & software
Founded	December 10, 1984; 39 years ago (1984-12-10) in San Francisco, California, United States
Founders	Leonard Bosack Sandy Lerner
Headquarters	San Jose, California , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Chuck Robbins (CEO and Chairman)
Products	List of Cisco products
Revenue	US$49.33 billion (2018)
Operating income	US$12.77 billion (2018)
Net income	US$110 million (2018)
Total assets	US$108.78 billion (2018)
Total equity	US$43.20 billion (2018)
Number of employees	74,200 (2018)
Subsidiaries	List of acquisitions by Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley. Cisco develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. 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.

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.

Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two Stanford University computer scientists. 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. By the end of the dot-com bubble in the year 2000, Cisco had a more than $500 billion market capitalization.

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  Cisco's first router, the Advanced Gateway Server (AGS) router (1986)

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  John T. Chambers led Cisco as its CEO between 1995 and 2015. (Pictured at 2010 World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland).

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  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at Cisco, 2010.

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  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.

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  CloudLock, a Cisco cloud computing security subsidiary.

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  Cisco headquarters in the North San Jose Innovation District

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  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.

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