Which company is Cisco?

Cisco Systems, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Silicon Valley, California, was founded by several students majoring in computer science at Stanford University in February 1984 and listed in June 1990. Is the world's leading provider of Internet hardware and corresponding software, with the largest production scale. John Chambers, current president and CEO. In 2004, Fortune Magazine ranked 100 among the top 500 enterprises in the United States. In 2003, the turnover was $65.438+$08.878 billion, and the net income was $3.578 billion. There are 34,000 employees worldwide.

Cisco's products cover more than 20 categories, such as various servers, various softwares, hubs of different sizes, processors, modulators and adapters related to network operation interfaces, optical fiber-based network platforms, and group telephones in large networks. To provide customers with the most extensive professional technical support in network hardware products, Internet operating system software, network design and implementation, and provide end-to-end network solutions, so that customers can establish their own unified information infrastructure or connect with other networks.

At the beginning of 1994, Cisco entered the China market. 65438+August 0994, 65438+September 0995, 65438+March 0996 and may set up offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu respectively. 1In June, 1998, the company's president and CEO visited China for the first time, and announced that they would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in China and introduce advanced network technology into China, including the establishment of "Cisco Systems (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd." in Beijing to take charge of Cisco's business in China; Establish a network technology laboratory in Beijing to provide network solutions and performance tests for domestic network industry, such as ATM broadband switch, gigabit routing optical fiber transmission, virtual local area network, etc. This is one of Cisco's three largest laboratories in the world and the largest network laboratory in Asia. 1999 1 10 In October, Cisco invested another $6 million to establish a technical support center in Beijing. This center is one of the four technical support centers established by Cisco in the world. It provides software and hardware maintenance and support services for Cisco partners and users in China 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In recent years, Cisco has actively participated in the construction of large-scale network projects in China. Cisco China Company began to participate in the construction of China financial backbone network from 1997. By 1999, China financial backbone network has been assisted to complete the third phase of expansion, reaching the scale of about 350 nodes, covering all prefecture-level cities in China. Other projects include China Education and Research Network, Customs and Postal System Network, and network construction of telecom operators such as China Telecom, China Unicom and Jitong Company.

In 2007, the net profit growth ranked among the top 500.

1 microsoft44141billion dollars 12%

2 IBM 15 104 billion USD 10%

3 Cisco 7173 billion USD 3 1%

4 HP1473 billion USD 17%

5 Intel $6.07 billion, accounting for 38%.

6 Oracle Bone Inscriptions13,743 billion US dollars 26%

7 Google15042 billion USD 37%

8 Apple1033.5 billion USD 76%

9 Qualcomm $29.733 billion 34%

Dell $342.9 billion

1 1 Texas instruments1852.7 billion USD 39%

12 corning4172 billion USD 90%

13 applied materials 2701700 million USD 13%

14 emc20165438+700 million USD 36%

15 xerox144 65438+700 million USD 8%

16 MEMC electronic materials 9138.26 million USD 124%

17 NVIDIA $5,437.98 million, 78%.

18 adobe 651724 million USD 43%

19 electronic data system 1 15 7 16 million USD 52%

20 LAM Research 759.686 billion USD 104%