Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP) and other products related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide. It provides switching products, including fixed-configuration and modular switches, and storage products that provide connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers, as well as function as aggregators on local-area networks and wide-area networks; and routers that interconnects public and private wireline and mobile networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications. The company also offers set-top boxes, cable modem termination systems, hybrid fiber coaxial access network products, quadrature amplitude modulation products, and cable modems; and video software and solutions. In addition, it provides collaboration products comprising IP phones, call center and messaging products, unified communications infrastructure products, and Web-based collaborative offerings, as well as telepresence systems; and security products such as firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, virtual private networks, unified clients, network admission control, Web gateways, and email gateways, which deliver identity, network, and content security solutions for mobile, collaborative, and cloud-enabled businesses. Further, the company offers wireless products consisting of wireless access points and network managed services, as well as standalone, switch-converged, and cloud managed solutions; and data center products, which include blade and rack servers, fabric interconnects, software, and server access virtualization solutions; and other products, such as emerging technologies and other networking products. Additionally, it provides technical support services and advanced services. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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