Cisco Systems
Overview
 
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation
Multinational corporation
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 headquartered in San Jose
San Jose, California
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, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$ 40.0 billion as of 2010. The stock was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dow Jones Industrial Average
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 on June 8, 2009, and is also included in the S&P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index, NASDAQ
NASDAQ
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 100 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock Index.
Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a married couple who worked as computer operations staff members at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, later joined by Nicholas Pham, founded Cisco Systems in 1984.
 
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