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Cisco Systems, Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: CSCO NASDAQ-100 Component DJIA Component S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Networking equipment
Founded	December 10, 1984; 32 years ago (1984-12-10) in San Francisco, California, United States
Founders	Leonard Bosack Sandy Lerner
Headquarters	San Jose, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	John Chambers (Chairman) Chuck Robbins (CEO)
Products	List of Cisco Products
Revenue	US$49.24 billion (2016)
Operating income	US$12.66 billion (2016)
Net income	US$10.73 billion (2016)
Total assets	US$121.6 billion (2016)
Total equity	US$63.58 billion (2016)
Number of employees	71,883 (2016)
Subsidiaries	List of Cisco Acquisitions
Website	Cisco.com

Coordinates: 37°24′30″N 121°57′15″W / 37.4083562°N 121.954088°W / 37.4083562; -121.954088

Cisco Systems, Inc. (known as Cisco) is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San José, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other high-technology services and products. Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as OpenDNS, WebEx, and Jasper, Cisco specializes into specific tech markets, such as Internet of Things (IoT), domain security, and energy management.

Cisco is the largest networking company in the world. The stock was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 8, 2009, and is also included in the S&P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index, NASDAQ-100 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock Index.