Cisco Systems, Inc. , one of a virtually all successful companies today, originally manufactured lone enterprise routing equipment. These times, Cisco sells the kind of hardware for each enterprises & telecommunications carriers. These include, however are non limited to:

Ethernet switches Branch professional routers & CPE (Customer Premises Devices) IP Telephony products such as IP PBXes (CallManager), VoIP gateways and IP phones Network security hardware like Firewalls, VPN concentrators, Network & Persons Intrusion Avoiding the parasites and Software Tube optical shift platforms Big telco-class core & edge routers / MPLS switches Host & enterprise ATM switches Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTSes) DSL subscriber aggregation / concentration equipment Remote access & universal gateways Storage Area Network (SAN) switches and appliances Network management software and appliances Wireless [http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/index.html]

Cisco's punch line is "The Worldwide Leader in Networking for the Internet" [http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/company_overview.html].

Corporate history
A married few Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner, who worked within machine operation staff at Stanford University, founded Cisco Systems in 1984. Bosack adapted multiple protocol router software originally written by William Yeager, another staff employee world health organization got begun a function years prior to Bosack arrived from either a University of Pennsylvania, where Bosack experienced received his Bachelor's degree.

When Cisco was non the number 1 company to produce & sell a router (a device that forwards computer traffic from either of these network to a second), it did produce a number one commercially successful multi-protocol router to allow antecedently incompatible computers to communicate applying different network protocols. When a Internet Protocol (IP) has become a standard, the importance of multi-protocol routing as a work has declined. Now, Cisco's big routers come marketed to route primarily IP packets & MPLS frames.

Around 1990 the company went public and was utilized on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Bosack & Lerner walk off from a company using $170 million [http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/0825/6004058a.html], & late divorced.

Applying acquisitions, internal development & partnering sustaining more corporations Cisco has manufactured inroads into numbers of network devices markets outside of routing, including Ethernet switch, remote access, branch professional routers, ATM networking, security, IP telephone & others. Within 2003, Cisco acquired Linksys, a popular manufacturer of computer networking hardware and positioned it as a leading brand for a home & the prevent user networking market (SOHO).

Cisco has install "Cisco Networking Academies" in 128 countries aimed at teaching students to project & maintain computer networks.

Cisco will bring certifications to agents in the networking field. These include: CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Skilful) CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Agency) CCDP (Cisco Certified Project Agency) CCIP (Cisco Certified Internetwork Sales person) CCSP (Cisco Certified Security Office) CCVP (Cisco Certified Voice Broker) CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) CCDA (Cisco Certified Project Associate)

A company has its corporate headquarters inside San Jose, California.

John Chambers is the current President & CEO.

Origin of the Cisco name

A title "Cisco" is non an acronym, however an abbreviation of San Francisco. Based on data from John Morgridge, employee 34 & a company's foremost president, a founders hit on a title & logotype when camping to Sacramento to register a company -- it saw the Golden Gate Bridge framed in the sunlight [http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/tln/execnet/shows/morgridge/hi_bandwidth/index.html]. A title cisco Systems (sustaining a lowercase "c") continued around utilize inside a engineering community at a company hanker when a official company title was changed to Cisco Systems, Inc. Users of Cisco products may however watch a title ciscoSystems once inside a while in bug reports & IOS messages.

A company's logotype reflects its San Francisco title heritage: it is the stylised Golden Gate Bridge.

Corporate acquisitions

For the listings & discussion of Cisco's acquisitions, watch Cisco Systems acquisitions.

A partial list of products
Hardware Wireless IP Phone 7920 IP Phones 7940, 796& 7970 Catalyst switch series: 1200, 1600, 1700, 1900, 2000, 2100, 2800, 29xx, 3000, 35xx, 37xx, 40xx, 45xx, 5xxx, 6xxx, Routers: 700, 800, 100x, 1600, 1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3700, 3800, 4500, 4700, 7000, 7200, 7400, 7500, 7600, 10000, 12000, CRS-1 etc. Wireless: Wireless Integrated Switches & Routers,Wireless IP Telephone, Wireless LAN Access, Aironet Wireless Bridges and Workgroup Bridges, Cisco Wireless LAN Client Adapters, Wireless LAN Controllers, Wireless Network Management, Wireless LAN Management, Wireless Security Servers [http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/index.html#products] PIX Firewall (acquired from Network Translation, Inc) AS5xxx Remote Access dial around servers (RAS) AS5xxx series VoIP gateways

Software Cisco CallManager Cisco IP Transport Point (IPT) Cisco Multimedia Conference Manager (MCM) Cisco Netsys Baseliner Cisco Fabric Manager CiscoView CiscoWorks Network Management software Cisco Intelligent Call for Management

Cisco LocalDirector load-balancing appliance Content Loadbalancers (acquired from Arrowpoint) LAN2LAN PC-based routing computer software (acquired from either Newport Systems) Content Engine Wireless LAN Solution Engine VPN Concentrator

Diversity

Cisco received the 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Stock freed per Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third season of the report. Additionally, a company was known as one of a Hundred Right Corporations for Working Moms within 2004 by Working Moms magazine.