Nowadays networks are an important technological component of business and personal life. Products developed by Cisco Systems Inc. based on the Internet protocol (IP) are the foundation of these networks and have turned the company into the internationally leading provider of network solutions for the Internet.
With solutions by Cisco, companies increase their productivity, improve customer satisfaction and create competitive advantages while private users can network with the versatile opportunities of the World Wide Web. This way Cisco’s vision of changing the way people work, live, play and learn has become a reality in many instances – and the changes are still continuing. Since the foundation of Cisco by scientists at Stanford University in 1984, the company has been at the center of groundbreaking technological changes. Cisco played a decisive role in the implementation of the Internet protocol as a standard.