Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO)

Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry and provides services associated with these products. It provides a broad line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings and across campuses. Cisco's current offerings comprises of the following categories: Routing, Switching, New Products, and Others. Routing technology is fundamental to the Internet, and this technology interconnects public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications. Its routing products are designed to enhance the intelligence, security, reliability, scalability, and level of performance in the transmission of information and media-rich applications. Switching is another integral networking technology used in campuses, branch offices, and data centers. The company's Switching products offer many forms of connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers, and also function as aggregators on local-area networks and wide-area networks. The company's New Products include Video Connected Home, Collaboration, Security, Wireless and Data Center. Cisco's end-to-end, digital video distribution systems and digital interactive set-top boxes enable service providers and content originators to deliver entertainment, information, and communication services to consumers and businesses. Cisco's Collaboration portfolio integrates voice, video, data and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks across a wide range of devices and endpoints from mobile phones and tablets to desktops, Macs and laptops to desktop virtualization clients. Cisco's security solutions deliver network and content security systems that are designed to enable highly secure collaboration. Its Unified Wireless Network is designed to unify high-performance 802.11n wireless access across campus, branch, remote, and outdoor environments. Cisco's Data Center products include Cisco Unified Computing System and Server Virtualization. The company's Other Products category primarily consists of optical networking products, emerging technologies such as physical security and video surveillance, and digital media systems. Cisco Systems was founded by Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack on December 10, 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.