Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc., founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner and headquartered in San Jose, California, is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for its networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment. Over the decades Cisco expanded from routers and switches into security (including VPN and endpoint solutions like Cisco AnyConnect), collaboration and conferencing (notably Webex), data center and cloud infrastructure, and a broad portfolio of services and software aimed at enterprise, service provider, and public sector customers worldwide.

Cisco has grown both organically and through acquisitions (for example, Webex in 2007 and Meraki in 2012), and it operates globally with a large enterprise customer base. In recent years the company has emphasized software-defined networking, cloud-managed services, security platforms, and developer-facing tools and open-source contributions. Cisco also provides training and certification programs (e.g., CCNA...