Cisco

Cisco Systems

By,

Wahida Sulthana . A, II-Msc.cs,

CISCO

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American 

multinational corporation headquartered in 

San Jose, California, that designs, manufactures,

and sells networking equipment.

Cisco Founders

Sandy Lerner

Leonard Bosack

Cisco Chairman and

CEO

John T. Chambers

Cisco Headquarter

San Jose, California, U.S.

Cisco History

Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by two

members;

Leonard Bosack , Sandy Lerner.  

The company's first CEO was Bill Graves, who held the

position from 1987 to 1988.

In 1988, John Morgridge was appointed CEO. The name

"Cisco" was derived from the city name, San Francisco, which

is why the

company's engineers insisted on using the lower case "cisco"

in its early years.

The logo is intended to depict the two towers of the 

Golden Gate Bridge.

On February 16, 1990, Cisco Systems went public

(with

a market capitalization of $224 million) and was listed on the

NASDAQ stock exchange.

Between 1992 and 1994, Cisco acquired several

companies in Ethernet switching.

In 1995, John Morgridge was succeeded by 

John Chambers .

1996–2009: Internet and silicon intelligence.

2006–2012: The Human Network.

2013–Present: The Internet of Everything.

Cisco Awards and

Achievements

Cisco was a 2002–03 recipient of the 

Ron Brown Award, a U.S. presidential honor to recognize

companies "for the exemplary quality of their

relationships with employees and communities".

Cisco commonly stays on top of Fortune "100 Best

Companies to work for", with position No. 20 in 2011.

Cisco acquired cyber-security firm Sourcefire, in

October 2013.

Cisco Products and

Services

Cisco's products and services focus upon three

market segments.

Enterprise and Service Provider

Small Business and

the Home.

Enterprise and Service

Provider

Borderless network:

 for their range of routers, switches, wireless systems, security

systems,

and media aware networks.

Collaboration:

IP video and phones, HealthPresence, Unified

Communications, Call Center systems, Enterprise social networks

and Mobile applications.

Datacenter and visualization:

Unified Computing, Unified Fabric, Data Centre Switching, Storage

Networking and Cloud Computing services.

IP NGN (Next Generation Networks):

High-end routing and switching for fixed and mobile service

provider networks, broadcast video distribution, delivery systems.

Small Business

Router and switches:

The machines that route and redirect packets across a

network,

Security and surveillances:

IP cameras, data and network security etc.

Voice and conferencing:

VOIP phones and gateway-systems, WebEx, video

conferencing.

Wireless:

Wi-Fi Access points.

Network storage system:

Persistent people storage on networks, either in the

traditional sense or in a cloud-like manner.

Home user

Broadband:

Broadband refers to cable modems.

Flip Video:

With the acquisition of Pure Digital Technologies.

Hardware:

Data

Telephony Products.

Servers / Application Appliances.

Experimental.

Software:

Operating Systems

VPN/Remote Connectivity

Telephony/VoIP

Cisco Certification

Cisco Systems also sponsors a line of IT Professional

certifications for Cisco products.

 There are five levels of certification;

Entry (CCENT), Associate (CCNA / CCDA), Professional

(CCNP / CCDP), Expert (CCIE / CCDE), and recently Architect,..

as well as eight different paths;

Routing & Switching,

Design,

Network Security,

Service Provider,

Service Provider Operations,

Storage Networking,

Voice,

Datacenter and Wireless.

Cisco Systems is leading the competition with the

most complete converged networking solutions that scale

from large enterprises to small branch offices, providing

your company with the most comprehensive voice, video,

and data solutions available today, as well as the network

expertise and support to make convergence a reality.

Conclusion:

bibliography:

www.cisco.com