Cisco Systems News

Cisco Systems was founded 1984 by husband and wife team Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner who created the multi-protocol router while working as computer scientists at Stanford University as a way to resolve the issue of sending email to each other from their respective offices located in different buildings.

Since those early beginnings the company has become a multibillion-dollar provider of IP-based edge and router equipment for service providers in addition to branching out into the consumer electronics market. Led by John Chambers, Cisco has 72,935 employees and reported $10.4 billion in 2010 full year revenues.