Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, both working at Stanford University at the time. It became the dominant supplier of networking hardware such as routers and switches that route traffic across the internet and corporate networks, and it remains one of the largest networking equipment companies in the world.
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Company TypeAmerican multinational technology conglomerate corporation 2 Founded Year HeadquartersSan Jose, California, U.S. 2 Company Type
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Where does the name Cisco come from?
It is short for San Francisco.
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 company logo is a stylized depiction of the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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is an American multinational technology conglomerate corporation that develops, manufactures, and sells hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products focused on networking, cybersecurity and AI. Cisco specializes in specific tech markets, such as the Internet of things (IoT), domain security, videoconferencing, and energy management, including products such as Webex, OpenDNS, Jabber, and Jasper. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, and, as of June 29, 2026, has a market capitalization of $461 billion.
Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two Stanford University computer scientists. They pioneered the concept of a local area network (LAN) being used to connect distant computers over a multiprotocol router system.
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