Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational technology company founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner and headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco began by developing routers and networking equipment that interconnect computer systems and has grown into one of the world’s largest networking and IT companies. Over the decades Cisco expanded through product development and acquisitions (including Webex, Meraki, OpenDNS and others) to offer a broad portfolio covering enterprise and service-provider networking, data center infrastructure, collaboration and unified communications, security, and cloud-based services.

Today Cisco supplies hardware (routers, switches, wireless access points), operating systems and network software (Cisco IOS, NX-OS), security products (firewalls, secure access, threat detection), collaboration tools (Webex, unified communications), and managed/cloud services. Cisco also publishes developer resources, contributes to open-source projects, and maintai...