Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational company founded in 1984. It is the worldwide leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer. It keeps #1 and #2 in most market segments for years. Headquarters in San Jose, California, the United States. Number of employees exceed 70,000 (2015) people of which 35% are engineers. Representative offices opened in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Nearly 70,000 channel partners worldwide.Eequipment manufactured by Cisco Systems, Inc marketed in 165 countries worldwide.
The main directions of product development includes solutions for high-speed datanetworks, video and audio processing, data storage and security.
Since 1993 Cisco Systems inc. did more that 170 acquisitions. The largest acquisitions are StrataCom ($4B), Cerent ($6.9B), Arrowpoint Communications ($5.7B), Scientific-Atlanta ($6.9B), NDS Group ($5B).