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11 unusual facts about Cisco Systems


Airgo Networks

Greg Raleigh, president and CEO, was also a founder, president, and CEO of Clarity Wireless, now owned by Cisco Systems.

Atletico Roma F.C.

In 2003-04 Serie C2 it was bought by the family Tulli of Cisco, already owners of Cisco Calcio in Serie D (formerly called Cisco Tor Sapienza and Cisco Collatino) which becomes Lupa Frascati, the next season.

Cardinal Leger Secondary School

The school enrolls about 1600 students and is the only school in the Dufferin-Peel board to have the Cisco Systems Program available to students.

Chawton House

In 1992 a 125-year lease on the house was purchased for £1.25 million by a foundation established by Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack, co-founders of Cisco Systems.

Check Point Integrity

Integrity was integrated with network gateways (the Cisco VPN 3000 series) to ensure that a PC met security requirements before it was granted access to the network.

Cisco Security Agent

Cisco Security Agent (CSA) is an endpoint intrusion prevention system made originally by Okena (formerly named StormWatch Agent), which was bought by Cisco Systems in 2003.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), formerly Cisco Unified CallManager and Cisco CallManager (CCM), is a software-based call-processing system developed by Cisco Systems.

Inter-Switch Link

Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL) is a Cisco proprietary protocol that maintains VLAN information as traffic flows between switches and routers.

One Penn Plaza

Cisco Systems, a Fortune 500 IT networking and telephony company, occupies the 9th floor.

Polytechnic University of San Luis Potosí

Besides the academic programs, the University offers a series of professional certifications, such as: The FCE by University of Cambridge, the MOS certification by Microsoft, and other certifications offered by Cisco Systems, or Sun Microsystems.

Twinaxial cabling

One of major applications includes Brocade, Arista, Cisco and others' network hardware with SFP+ interfaces.


Adam Werbach

After leaving The Sierra Club, Werbach formed Act Now Productions to consult to nonprofits and corporations that wished to green their enterprise, including Autodesk, Procter & Gamble, Cisco Systems, Columbia Records, Frito Lay, General Mills, Sierra Club, and World Wildlife Fund.

Andrew Serwer

During his tenure at the magazine, he wrote a number of cover stories including ones on Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, John Chambers, Cisco Systems, among many others.

Apache Qpid

In 2005 JPMorgan Chase approached other firms to form a working group that included Cisco Systems, IONA Technologies, iMatix, Red Hat, and Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team (TWIST).

Application-oriented networking

Application-oriented networking was popularized by Cisco Systems in response to increasing use of XML messaging (combined with related standards such as XSLT, XPath and XQuery) to link miscellaneous applications, data sources and other computing assets.

Arbor Networks

Later, in August 2002, the company raised another $22 million in a second round of venture capital, led by Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, with participants that included Battery Ventures and Cisco Systems, among others.

CounterPath Corporation

CounterPath's customers include some of the world's largest telecommunications service providers and network equipment providers including Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Verizon, BT (British Telecommunications PLC), Mobilkom Austria, Rogers, SaskTel, Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco Systems, Metaswitch Networks, GENBAND, Mitel, NTT and NEC.

Devicescape Software

A version including Cisco Systems' CCX is also available to those with the required Cisco license.

École des technologies numériques appliquées

Students of ETNA can prepare major certifications (Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Oracle).

Economy of Reading, Berkshire

Other technology companies with a significant presence in the town include Agilent Technologies, Assuria, Audio & Design (Recording) Ltd, Bang & Olufsen, Cisco, Ericsson, Harris Corporation, Intel, Nvidia, Sage, Sagem Orga, SGI, Symantec, Symbol Technologies, Verizon Business, Virgin Media, Websense, Xansa (now Steria), and Xerox.

Ingmar Zahorsky

Zahorsky's commercial media work for clients such as Yahoo!, AMD and Cisco had a wide audience on television and the web.

Ironbound Films

Ironbound also creates videos for various clients, including corporations Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox; charities LCU Foundation and Episcopal Charities; and museums Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Judith Estrin

Estrin is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded seven companies with Bill Carrico and was the CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000.

Landau Forte Academy, Amington

Other highlights include drama and recording studios, a whole-school IT network (the school houses a Cisco Systems Oracle Database academy), design and technology centre, a suite of three art studios, a 32-seat language laboratory (French and German were traditionally taught, Spanish has been added in recent years) and nine science laboratories.

Multilayer switch

According to Cisco, Layer 3 switches are basically routers that switch based on Layer 3 information, the basic difference being processing speed and/or the way they do the switching; Layer 3 switches use ASICs/hardware instead of the CPU/software that a router would.

Network Systems Corporation

Internetworking companies, most notably Cisco Systems, entered the market with local and wide-area networking products using off-the-shelf components and custom software.

Proto.in

The event has been supported and sponsored by a broad base of partners including the likes of Rediff.com, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Airtel, Cisco and Sequoia Capital.

Security Practices and Research Student Association

ISTS8 took place April 1–3, 2011 with Cisco, ShmooCon, Perimeter E-Security, Arnold Magnetics, RIT CS Department, RIT NSSA Department, Wegmans, No Starch Press, and Syngress as the sponsors and took place at RIT.

Steelbox Networks

Steelbox was founded in 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia by six engineers most of whom have worked together for 20 years and completed projects for Cisco Systems, Scientific Atlanta and Nortel Networks.

Stony Brook University Research and Development Park

CEWIT has established partnerships with IT companies including giants like IBM and Cisco Systems and formed partnerships with other leading research institutions.

SUN workstation

William Yeager wrote the software, which was later adopted and evolved by Cisco Systems on its version of the hardware.

UTC Reading

The University of Reading, Reading College and Oxford and Cherwell Valley College are the lead education sponsors of UTC, while business partners include Agilent Technologies, CGI Group, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Network Rail.