Cisco
About Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational digital-communications-technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. The company was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack, Sandy Lerner, and Richard Troiano, computer scientists from Stanford University, with an initial focus on multi-protocol routers that helped commercialise the internet. Cisco is publicly listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CSCO and has been one of the most valuable technology companies in the world for several decades. Cisco's product portfolio spans routing and switching, wireless and Wi-Fi, data-centre networking, software-defined networking, security (Cisco Secure, Duo, Umbrella, Talos), observability (Splunk, AppDynamics, ThousandEyes), full-stack collaboration (Webex), service-provider networks, software-defined WAN, Internet-of-Things, and an expanding software and subscription business. The acquisition of Splunk, completed in 2024, made Cisco one of the largest providers of security and observability software globally. The company serves enterprises, communications service providers, governments, and small and medium businesses in more than 100 countries, with services and partner ecosystems built around its hardware and software platforms. Cisco has a deep India footprint with major engineering, services, and global-business-services centres in Bengaluru, the Cisco Global Development Center in Bengaluru being one of its largest engineering sites outside the United States, and additional offices in cities such as Pune, Chennai, Mumbai, Gurugram, and Hyderabad. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at Cisco typically targets software-engineer, hardware, firmware, network-engineer, security-engineer, customer-experience, services, and corporate-functions roles, with applications routed through Cisco's global careers portal.