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About Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc.
is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today,
networks are an essential part of business, education, government
and home communications, and Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP)
networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.
Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of
computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's
inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of
Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with
more than 47,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation
continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the
company's core development areas of
routing and switching,
as well as in advanced technologies.
Cisco has been at the heart of many historic changes in technology,
and that continues to be true today. Now, at a time when the
technology industry is going through a period of dramatic change,
Cisco is the market leader in multiple areas, such as routing and
switching, unified communications, wireless and security. The
company helped catalyze the industry's move toward IP and, now that
it is fully underway, the company is at the center of fundamental
changes in the way the world communicates.
The Network is the Platform
The emergence of the network as a
platform is changing the entire value chain of technology and
placing the network squarely at the center of innovation: as many as
14 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2010. The
explosion of devices will be fueled by more and more services and
tasks being handled online, from phone calls to personalized
searches to downloading videos, games and other forms of
entertainment.
The role of the network is evolving beyond that of infrastructure.
It is emerging as a secure platform for delivering the customized
and personalized experience that 21st century users expect - whether
that means delivering new services as a carrier, boosting
productivity for businesses of any size or consumers looking for
real-time, personalized entertainment and services.
As
an increasingly intelligent network evolves into a platform, users
will be able to communicate from any device and in whatever mode
they choose.
Cisco is leading the transition to a network-centric technology
environment. By combining its core strength (IP) with intelligence,
the company is creating a powerful communications platform that will
serve as the basis for the convergence of data, voice, video and
mobile communications in a secure, integrated architecture.
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