About Business
Cisco Systems, Inc., or Cisco (trademark name), is a digital communications technology company founded on 10 December 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner. Cisco's headquarters is located in San Jose, California. The company is included in S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock indices. It offers worldwide services and products such as networking software and hardware, telecommunications equipment, and many more. The company has 90,400 employees, and it will have US$53.80 billion in 2024. The beginning of Cisco belongs to Stanford University's campus technology, where an Advanced Gateway Server (AGS) router was created. The router was called Blue Box, which software was originally written by William Yeager, working as a research engineer at Stanford University. The current CEO & Chairman of the company is Chuck Robbins. Cisco dominates the tech market and provides services for enterprises, small businesses, and homes. It has many services like domain security, videoconferencing, Internet of Things (IoT), etc.