Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO

What this company does

Cisco designs and sells a range of technologies used to power and secure the Internet. Its products and technologies fall into the categories of Networking, Security, Collaboration and Observability, and it also provides technical support services and advanced services over the lifecycle of those products. As of July 26, 2025, it had approximately 86,200 employees. The business is conducted globally and managed by geography, organized into three geographic segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The networking business rests on switching, routing, wireless and servers, offered through both hardware and software solutions. The security portfolio spans network security, identity and access management, Secure Access Service Edge, and threat intelligence, detection and response solutions. The collaboration portfolio consists of the Webex suite, collaboration devices, Contact Center and Communication Platform as a Service offerings, delivered as software, including perpetual licenses and subscriptions, as well as hardware. The company was incorporated in California in 1984 and reincorporated in Delaware in 2021, and its headquarters are in San Jose, California.

Written from the business description in CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 3 September 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.