Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco Systems is the world's leading provider of Internet equipment. Its network devices and application schemes connect people, computing devices and networks all over the world, so that people can use various devices to transmit information anytime and anywhere. Cisco provides customers with end-to-end network solutions, enabling them to build their own unified information infrastructure or connect with other networks. Cisco provides the industry's most extensive network hardware products, Internet operating system (IOS) software, network design and implementation and other professional technical support, and cooperates with partners to provide technical support and professional training services in network maintenance and optimization.
Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, and its branches in chelmsford, Massachusetts and Research Triangle Park, North Carolina are responsible for some important business operations of Cisco.
Cisco and its customers are working hard to promote the development of the Internet every day. Cisco believes that the development of the Internet will greatly change the operation mode of enterprises and produce a "global network economy" model. This model enables enterprises of any size to use information exchange technology to maintain a strong interactive business relationship.
Cisco itself is the beneficiary of the "global network economy" model. Through the network application across Internet and intranet, the operating cost is greatly reduced and the direct income is increased. This has increased Cisco's annual revenue by $825 million, and also improved the satisfaction of customers and partners. Cisco's competitiveness in customer support, product reservation and delivery time has also been greatly improved. Cisco currently has the world's largest Internet business website, and 90% of its global business transactions are completed online.
Cisco is one of the most successful companies in America. Since the first router was produced in 1986, Cisco has occupied the first or second market share in every field it entered and become the market leader. Since 1990 went public, Cisco's annual revenue has increased from $69 million to $22.29 billion in the fiscal year of 200/kloc-0. The company has more than 36,000 employees worldwide.