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Company Profile

Cisco Systems, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of networking and communications products worldwide. The company provides a line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings and across campuses. Its offerings include routers, which interconnect computer networks by moving data, voice, and video from one network to another; and switching systems that are used in buildings and campuses to build local-area networks (LAN), across cities to build metropolitan-area networks, and across various distances to build wide-area networks. The company’s technology products and services comprise home networking products, which enable users to share Internet access, printers, music, movies, and games; Internet protocol telephony products for transmitting voice communications; optical networking products, which provide a path for telecommunications carriers, as well as for carriers and enterprises; and security products, which protect information systems from unauthorized use. It also offers storage networking products that deliver connectivity between servers and storage systems. These products incorporate network features, such as security, traffic management, virtualization, and tools. In addition, Cisco also offers wireless LAN and outdoor wireless bridging products. These products include access points; an integrated wireless and wireline switching system; wireless LAN client adapters; bridges; antennas; and accessories. Its products and services enable customers to build their network infrastructures while providing tools to allow them to communicate with stakeholders, including customers, prospects, business partners, suppliers, and employees. The company’s products are installed at corporations, public institutions, telecommunication companies, and commercial businesses, as well as in personal residences. It offers its products and services primarily through its direct sales force, as well as through distributors and retail partners. Cisco has strategic alliances with AT&T Corp.; BearingPoint, Inc.; Bell South Corporation; Cap Gemini S.A.; Electronic Data Systems Corporation; Fujitsu, Ltd.; Hewlett-Packard Company; Intel Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation; Italtel SpA; Microsoft Corporation; Motorola, Inc.; SBC Communications, Inc.; and Sprint Corporation. Cisco Systems was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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