Introduction

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a leader in networking for the Internet. The company, founded in 1984 by scientists from Stanford University, today employs more than 47,000 employees all over the world. All these years, it has been an active investor in start-ups. Since 1993, Cisco has acquired 108 companies. Cisco closed financial year 2005 (ending July 2005) with revenues of $24.8 billion.

Business

Cisco sells products and provides solutions in the areas of routing, switching, IP communications, network security, wireless LAN, storage area networking, home networking, hosted small business solutions, video systems and application networking services.

Partnership

Cisco has strategic alliances with leading companies like Accenture, Capgemini, EDS, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola and Siemens.

Location

Apart from its head office and other offices in the U.S., Cisco has numerous other offices in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. It has five R&D facilities within the U.S. and three other facilities outside (in Bangalore, India; Shanghai, China and Herzliya, Israel).