Cisco Systems Inc. is an American technology company founded by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner in 1984 who pioneered the concept of a local area network (LAN) used to connect geographically dispersed computers over a multi-protocol router system. The company's headquarters is located in San Jose, California.

Cisco Systems Inc. develops, manufactures and sells equipment and software for the Internet protocol-based network and other products related to the communications and information technology industry. The company offers switching products; routing products that connect public and private wired and mobile networks; data center products and wireless access points for use in voice, video and data applications. In addition, the company offers collaboration products including unified communications, telepresence and conferencing, as well as the Things Internet application and analytics software. Cisco offers security products including network and data center protection, advanced threat protection; Internet security and access; email; access and policy; unified threat management; consulting services; integration and managed services; software and solutions for service providers, as well as products for cloud and system products; technical support and advanced services; hyperconvergence software, cloud computing and contact center solutions, and an AI relationship intelligence platform. The company serves small businesses, large corporations, government agencies, governments and service providers. It sells its products directly as well as through partners such as system integrators, service providers, and other resellers and distributors.

Its networking, security, collaboration, application and cloud computing products provide a highly secure, intelligent platform for digital business.

Cisco conducts its business globally and operates on a geographic basis. The business is divided into the following three geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific, Japan and China (APJC).

The company's business is segmented into the following categories: infrastructure platforms, applications, security and other products. In addition, the company provides a wide range of services, including technical support and advanced services.

Network value according to Cisco.

Businesses are increasingly using technology and, in particular, networks to grow their business, improve efficiency and competitiveness. Data is one of an organization's most important strategic assets, and this data is increasingly distributed across organizations and ecosystems, within the organization, at the network edge, and in the cloud. Cisco believes that as the number of new devices connected to the Internet grows, the network will play an even more important role, allowing companies to aggregate, automate, and extract actionable information from this highly distributed data that requires increased levels of security and speed. And this is forcing companies to implement completely new IT architectures and organizational structures and, in particular, to look for network deployment solutions that provide greater flexibility, performance, security, and other enhanced networking capabilities.