“Welcome to Human Network”

Introduction  Cisco Systems Inc. is an U.S. based multinational company which is headquartered in San Jose, California. The firm designs and sells solutions for networking and communication under four brands: Cisco, Linksys, WebEx and Scientific Atlanta.

About the Company  Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a married couple who worked at Stanford University founded Cisco Systems in  The name “Cisco” is an abbreviation of San Francisco.  Company’s logo is inspired from Golden Gate Bridge’s figure.

About the Company  Company’s production base is in San Jose, California, U.S.A.  More than employees in over 150 countries are working in Cisco.  CISCO SYSTEMS INC. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Over the 80 percent of internet infrastructure are Cisco products.  Current CEO of the company is John T. Chambers

About the Company  Cisco made billion turnover and $5.58 billion net income in 2006.

Timeline  Cisco shipped its first product, the MEIS Subsystem (Ethernet interface for DECSYSTEM- 20) in  The company went public in Bosack and Lerner walked away from the company with $170 million.  In 1999 Cisco acquired Cerent Corp. For about $7 billion. That was the most expensive acquisition at that time.

Timeline  In March 2000 Cisco was the most valuable company in the world.  In 2003 Cisco acquired Linksys, a computer networking hardware manufacturer.

Timeline  The company was a recepient of the Ron Brown Award with Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) in  In October 2006, Cisco launched a new logo which is graphically simplier and more stylized than the original.

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A Story of Success… The basic idea behind Cisco was to find easier ways to connect different types of computer systems. Without doubt it was not an easy job. On the other hand they were not the first company to develop and sell a router, but the company was the first who created a commercially successfull multi-protocol router. The basic idea behind Cisco was to find easier ways to connect different types of computer systems. Without doubt it was not an easy job. On the other hand they were not the first company to develop and sell a router, but the company was the first who created a commercially successfull multi-protocol router.

Cisco Operations in Turkey Cisco Systems is operating since 1996 in Turkey. In that time the firm has provided infrastructure services to companies such as Koç, Eczacıbaşı, Turkcell and Türk Telekom. Cisco is planning to invest $250 million in Turkey for the next 5 years. Cisco also organised ciscoexpo in in turkey in 2006 which is an organisation about technologic developments organised every year in 25 companies. As a nice detail Taşkın who works as a system engineer for cisco's wireless communication won Cisco innovator award for his br1410 design. Cisco Systems is operating since 1996 in Turkey. In that time the firm has provided infrastructure services to companies such as Koç, Eczacıbaşı, Turkcell and Türk Telekom. Cisco is planning to invest $250 million in Turkey for the next 5 years. Cisco also organised ciscoexpo in in turkey in 2006 which is an organisation about technologic developments organised every year in 25 companies. As a nice detail Taşkın who works as a system engineer for cisco's wireless communication won Cisco innovator award for his br1410 design.

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