Cisco Systems, Inc

Cisco Systems, Inc provides critical infrastructure in the AI era. Cisco Systems, Inc. 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 AI, networking, cyber security and Computing. Cisco specializes in specific tech markets, such as the Artificial Intelligence (AI), data networking, IT security, on premise and cloud based collaboration solutions, and computing solutions, including products such as Secure AI factory (partnering with NVIDIA) , Cisco UCS (Unfied Compute Solutions), Cisco Catalyst Switching Solutions, Cisco SD WAN, Cisco Nexus and Smart Switch DC Networking, and Webex. Cisco is based in San Jose, California and, as of Jan 2026, has a market capitalization of over $300 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. The company went public in 1990 and, by the end of the dot-com bubble in 2000, had a market capitalization of $500 billion, surpassing Microsoft as the world's most valuable company. Cisco stock (CSCO), trading on Nasdaq since 1990, was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 8, 2009. It is also included in the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, and the Russell 1000 indices.

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