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Cisco Systems


A provider of networking and communications technologies, Cisco Systems was founded by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University in 1984.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, the technology bellwether has a worforce of more than 67,647 employees around the world.

The company's core development areas are in routing and switching, and it also provides advanced technologies such as IP communications, wireless LAN, home networking, application networking services, network security, storage area networking and video systems.

For its first fiscal quarter 2009, Cisco posted an 8 percent year-on-year increase in sales to US$10.3 billion from US$9.6 billion. However, year-on-year net profit was flat at US$2.2 billion.

This company is listed in Data storage management, Software infrastructure, Business applications, Networking & Communications, Security, Services.



Financials
Fiscal year-end July FY08 FY07 FY06 FY05 FY04
Global revenue (US$millions) 39,540.0 34,922.0 28,484.0 24,801.0 —
Global full-year net income (US$millions) 8,052.0 7,333.0 5,580.0 5,741.0 —
Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years 16.89%
Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years 12.81%
Percentage of revenue from Asia (excluding Japan/Korea) 11%

Operations
Founded 1984 California USA
First Asian office 1993 Hong Kong
Global employees 66,129
Global employees in Asia 9,800
Asian economies: Total 10 China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

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