[ Cisco Systems, Inc. ]
- Cisco Systems, Inc. was originally founded by an American businesswoman and philanthropist, Sandy Lerner and her husband, Leonard Bosack on December 10 1984.
- The company is most well-known for its Internet Protocol based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry.
- The initial product of Cisco Systems was called the “Blue Box” which supported multiple communications protocols that allowed all computer systems at Stanford to talk to one another.
- Currently, the company has over 75 thousand employees world-wide and it is one of the biggest companies in the world with the current market cap of 256 billion dollars.
- Cisco is short for San Francisco, the city where the company was founded.