About Cisco Systems
1. Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a married couple who worked as computer operations staff at Stanford university, later joined by Richard Troiano, founded Cisco Systems in 1984. Lerner moved on to direct computer services at Schlumberger, moving full time to Cisco in 1987. The name "Cisco" was derived from the cityname, San
2. Francisco, which is why the company's engineers insisted on using the lower case 'cisco' in the early days
3. Cisco has made inroads into many network equipment markets outside routing, including Ethernet switching, remote access, branch office routers, ATM networking, security, IP telephony, and others. In 2003, Cisco acquired Linksys, a popular manufacturer of computer networking hardware and positioned it as a leading brand for the home and end user networking market (SOHO).
4.The company's first two CEOs are John Morgridge and John Chambers . The Corporate Headquarters is on East Tasman Drive in San Jose, California, between Zanker Road and Cisco Way.
5.The company was a 2002-03 recipient of the Ron Brown Award . Cisco's vision is "Changing the Way We Work, Live, Play and Learn.
6.Cisco's current tagline is "Welcome to the human network."
The company was a 2002-03 recipient of the Ron Brown Award.
Cisco's vision is "Changing the Way We Work, Live, Play and Learn." Cisco's current tagline is
"Welcome to the human network."
