52 Facts About Cisco 7600

Cisco 7600 Systems, Inc, commonly known as Cisco 7600, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California.

Cisco 7600 develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.

Cisco 7600 specializes in specific tech markets, such as the Internet of Things, domain security, videoconferencing, and energy management with leading products including Webex, OpenDNS, Jabber, Duo Security, and Jasper.

Cisco 7600 Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two Stanford University computer scientists who had been instrumental in connecting computers at Stanford.

Cisco 7600 Systems was founded in December 1984 by Sandy Lerner along with her husband Leonard Bosack.

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Name "Cisco 7600" was derived from the city name San Francisco, which is why the company's engineers insisted on using the lower case "cisco" in its early years.

Classical, CPU-based architecture of early Cisco 7600 devices coupled with flexibility of operating system IOS allowed for keeping up with evolving technology needs by means of frequent software upgrades.

Cisco 7600 was quick to capture the emerging service provider environment, entering the SP market with product lines such as Cisco 7000 and Cisco 8500.

Between 1992 and 1994, Cisco 7600 acquired several companies in Ethernet switching, such as Kalpana, Grand Junction and most notably, Mario Mazzola's Crescendo Communications, which together formed the Catalyst business unit.

Cisco 7600 introduced products ranging from modem access shelves to core GSR routers, making them a major player in the market.

In 2004, Cisco 7600 started the migration to new high-end hardware CRS-1 and software architecture IOS XR.

Limits of IOS and aging Crescendo architecture forced Cisco 7600 to look at merchant silicon in the carrier Ethernet segment.

Cisco 7600 expanded into new markets by acquisition—one example being a 2009 purchase of mobile specialist Starent Networks.

Cisco 7600 continued to be challenged by both domestic competitors Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper Networks, and an overseas competitor Huawei.

In 2013, Cisco 7600 sold its Linksys home-router unit to Belkin International Inc, signaling a shift to sales to businesses rather than consumers.

Cisco 7600 indicated that it would still collaborate with Technicolor on video products.

In January 2016, Cisco 7600 invested in VeloCloud, a software-defined WAN start-up with a cloud offering for configuring and optimizing branch office networks.

In February 2017, Cisco 7600 launched a cloud-based secure internet gateway, called Cisco 7600 Umbrella, to provide safe internet access to users who do not use their corporate networks or VPNs to connect to remote data centers.

In 2019, Cisco 7600 acquired CloudCherry, a customer experience management company, and Voicea, an artificial intelligence company.

Cisco 7600's shares traded at over $43 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at US$213.

Cisco 7600 used this money it was able to bring back at a lower tax rate to fund share buybacks and acquisitions.

Cisco 7600 acquired a variety of companies to spin products and talent into the company.

In 1999, Cisco 7600 acquired a stake for $1 billion in KPMG Consulting to enable establishing Internet firm Metrius founded by Keyur Patel of Fuse.

Several acquired companies have grown into $1Bn+ business units for Cisco 7600, including LAN switching, Enterprise Voice over Internet Protocol platform Webex and home networking.

The latter came as result of Cisco 7600 acquiring Linksys in 2003 and in 2010 was supplemented with new product line dubbed Cisco 7600 Valet.

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In more recent merger deals, Cisco 7600 bought Starent Networks and Moto Development Group, a product design consulting firm that helped develop Cisco 7600's Flip video camera.

In March 2011, Cisco 7600 completed the acquisition of privately held network configuration and change management software company Pari Networks.

In January 2013, Cisco 7600 Systems acquired Israeli software maker Intucell for around $475 million in cash, a move to expand its mobile network management offerings.

Cisco 7600 acquired SolveDirect in March 2013 and Ubiquisys in April 2013.

Cisco 7600 already owns an undisclosed stake in the hyper-converged provider.

In January 2017, Cisco 7600 announced they would acquire AppDynamics, a company that monitors application performance, for $3.

Cisco 7600 is headquartered in San Jose, California at 170 West Tasman Dr with dozens of buildings comprising its corporate campus.

Cisco 7600 maintains over 200 corporate offices in more than 80 countries.

In July 2021, Cisco 7600 announced all employees the option to work remotely on a permanent basis.

Cisco 7600 provides IT products and services across five major technology areas: Networking, Security, Collaboration, Data Center, and the Internet of Things.

Cisco 7600 has grown increasingly popular in the Asia-Pacific region over the last three decades and is the dominant vendor in the Australian market with leadership across all market segments.

Cisco 7600 became a major provider of Voice over IP to enterprises and is moving into the home user market through its acquisitions of Scientific Atlanta and Linksys.

In 2011, Cisco 7600 received the Innovation Preparedness award from the American Red Cross Silicon Valley Chapter for its development and use of these vehicles in disasters.

Cisco 7600 provides training for these certifications via a portal called the Cisco 7600 Networking Academy.

Cisco 7600 is involved with technical education in 180 countries with its Cisco 7600 Academy program.

In March 2013, Cisco 7600 announced its interest in Myanmar by investing in two Cisco 7600 Networking Academies in Yangon and Mandalay and a channel partner network.

Cisco 7600 products, including IP phones and Telepresence, have been seen in movies and TV series.

Cisco 7600 was featured in the documentary film Something Ventured which premiered in 2011.

Cisco 7600 ranked number one in Great Place to Work's World's Best Workplaces 2019.

Cisco 7600 has been criticized for its involvement in censorship in the People's Republic of China.

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Cisco 7600 has stated that it does not customize or develop specialized or unique filtering capabilities to enable governments to block access to information and that it sells the same equipment in China as it sells worldwide.

In May 2011, a group of Falun Gong practitioners filed a lawsuit under the Alien Tort Statute alleging that Cisco 7600 knowingly developed and customized its product to assist the Chinese government in prosecution and abuse of Falun Gong practitioners.

In May 2010, Cisco 7600 accused the person who filed the antitrust suit, British-Nigerian technology entrepreneur Peter Alfred-Adekeye, with hacking and pressured the US government to extradite him from Canada.

Cisco 7600 settled the antitrust lawsuit two months after Alfred-Adekeye's arrest by making its software updates available to all Multiven customers.

Cisco 7600 denied the allegations in a customer document saying that no information was included about specific Cisco 7600 products, supply chain intervention or implant techniques, or new security vulnerabilities.

Spherix says that over $43 billion of Cisco 7600's sales infringe on old Nortel patents owned by Spherix.

In 2020, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute accused at least 82 major brands, including Cisco 7600, of being connected to forced Uyghur labor in Xinjiang.