Cisco

CISCO Systems
Official Website: http://www.cisco.com/
Official about page: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/
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Location: 170 West Tasman Dr., San Jose, CA, 95134, USA
Founded: 1984
Business: Manufacturers of IT Network Technology - Deep Packet Inspection, Interception, Data collection and Analysis
Contact
Phone: (408) 526-4000, (800) 553-NETS, (800) 553-6387
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Background

" Cisco Systems, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (IT) industry; and in the provision of services associated with these products and their use.

The company provides a line of products for transporting data, voice, and video with in buildings, across campuses, and worldwide. Its products are designed to transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. The company’s products are installed at enterprise businesses, public institutions, telecommunications companies and other service providers, commercial businesses, and personal residences.

• Customers and Markets

The company’s customers primarily operate in the following markets: enterprise, service provider, commercial, and consumer.

Enterprise: Enterprise businesses are regional, national, or global organizations with multiple locations or branch offices. The company’s enterprise customers also include public sector entities and governments.

Service Providers: Service providers offer data, voice, video, and mobile/wireless services to businesses, governments, utilities, and consumers worldwide. They include regional, national, and international wireline carriers, as well as Internet, cable, and wireless providers.

Products

Lawful Interception

Cisco 7600 Configuration Overview pdf and Configuration Guidelines Full Book

Deep Packet Inspection

• Routers and integration

"Application Visibility and Control (AVC) is a solution that uses multiple technologies of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers and Cisco Integrated Service Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) and management tools that, when working together, provide a powerful and pervasive integrated solution for application visibility and control based on stateful deep packet inspection (DPI)."

Data Collection

• NetFlowblog by Mike Schiffman

"NetFlow is a UDP-exported network profiling protocol originally developed by Cisco Systems in 1996. It enables participating devices (typically routers and switches) to report telemetry data on the network traffic flowing through them (such a device is called a NetFlow exporter). This data is sent to a downstream machine, called a NetFlow Collector: see Diagram... [ NetFlow version 9] introduced much more power with the capability to dynamically change the packet format using templates and match on just about anything using Flexible NetFlow.

If packet capture can be thought of as a wiretap, NetFlow can be considered the phone bill. NetFlow allows the Network Administrator and Security Practitioner to determine:

• Who is talking to who

• Over what ports (or protocols)

• For how long

• At what speed

Data Mining for Misuse: NetFlow flows, when aggregated, can provide an excellent target for data mining. Suspicious, unusual, or even illegal behaviors can be tracked and trended.

Products and Services

The company’s product offerings fall into the following categories: its core technologies,

Routing and Switching;

New Products; and

Other Products.

The company also provides a range of service offerings, including technical support services and advanced services.

The company’s products are used individually or as integrated offerings to connect personal and business computing devices to networks or computer networks with each other—whether they are with in a building, across a campus, or around the world.

It also provides products and services that allow customers to transition their various networks to a single multi-service data, voice, and video network...

• Routing

Routing technology is fundamental to the Internet, and this technology interconnects public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications.

The company offers a range of routers, from core network infrastructure and mobile Internet network for service providers and enterprises to access routers for branch offices and for telecommuters and consumers at home.

Key products with in its routing category are the Cisco 800, 1900, 2900, and 3900 Series Integrated Services Routers as well as the Cisco Aggregation Services Routers (ASR) 1000, 5000 and 9000 Series;

Cisco 7600 and 12000 Series Routers;

and the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS), CRS-1, and CRS-3.

• Switching

Switching is another integral networking technology used in campuses, branch offices, and data centers. Switches are used within buildings in local-area networks (LANs) and across great distances in wide-area networks (WANs).

The company’s switching products offer various forms of connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers, and also function as aggregators on LANs and WANs.

The company’s switching systems employ various technologies, including Ethernet, Power over Ethernet, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Packet over Synchronous Optical Network, and Multiprotocol Label Switching.

It offers a family of Ethernet switching solutions from fixed-configuration to cover a range of deployments in small and medium-sized businesses, to modular switches for enterprises and service providers.

The company’s fixed-configuration switches are designed to provide a foundation for converged data, voice, and video services. They range from small, standalone switches to stackable models that function as a single, scalable switching unit.

Key products with in its switching category are;

• Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3560, 3750, 4500, 4900, and 6500 Series;

• Nexus 1000V, 3000, 4000, 5000 and 7000 Series switches; and

• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders.

• New Products

• Video Connected Home

These systems consist of products and platforms deployed in network operation centers, headends, core and edge access networks, and outside plant environments, as well as in homes and businesses.

The company’s range of set-top box product offerings includes both standard IP capable models and radio frequency models that can distribute content, as well as advanced models with digital video recording options and whole home video capabilities for delivering standard definition and high definition video.

The company also provides cable modems, residential gateways, femtocell access points, and other products deployed in homes and businesses

The company’s products connect different devices in the household, allowing people to share Internet access, printers, storage, video, music, movies, and games throughout the home. Products include routers, adapters, gateways, switches, modems, home network management software, and other products that are designed to provide both tech-savvy and mass-market consumers with in-home experiences. These products are sold through select retailers, value-added resellers, online retailers, and service providers worldwide.

• Collaboration

The company's collaboration portfolio integrates voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks across a range of devices and endpoints from mobile phones and tablets to desktops, Macs and laptops to desktop virtualization clients.

Specific solutions include IP phones, mobile applications, customer care, Web conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software, and Cisco TelePresence Systems.

These solutions are available as software and Web-based collaborative offerings, standalone devices, integrated components in Cisco routers and switches, and as hosted services in the cloud.

The company has introduced various new collaboration solutions, including Cisco Quad, an enterprise social software platform;

Cisco Social Miner, a social media solution for proactive customer care;

Cisco TelePresence EX90 and MX200 systems designed to extend TelePresence to various desktops, offices and meeting spaces;

Cisco Jabber, an enterprise application for presence, instant messaging, Web conferencing, desktop sharing, voice and video on mobile devices, laptops and applications;

Cisco WebEx for Web-based collaboration with presentations, applications, documents, integrated audio and video on tablets and desktops; and new desktop virtualization endpoints for thin client Collaboration applications.

• Security Cisco security solutions deliver network and content security systems that are designed to enable secure collaboration. The company’s products in this category span firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, virtual private networks (VPN), unified client, Web and email security, and network security.

AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client enables users to access networks with their mobile device of choice, such as laptops and smartphone-based mobile devices while allowing organizations to manage the security risks of borderless networks.

The company’s cloud-based Web security service is designed to provide real-time threat protection and to prevent zero-day malware from reaching corporate networks, including roaming or mobile users. It focuses on a proactive, layered approach to counter both existing and emerging security threats.

In addition, Cisco security systems include network and application policy solutions for identity services used in data centers and collaboration services as a series of network access control and entitlement solutions.

A key product line with in its security product category is the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances line.

• Wireless

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network is designed to unify 802.11n wireless access across campus, branch, remote, and outdoor environments. This platform delivers, through an open application programming interface (API), business-relevant mobility data, voice, video, and context-aware applications to partners and end-user customers.

A key product line with in its wireless technology category is the Cisco Aironet product family.

• Data Center Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Server Virtualization form the core of the company’s data center products. The UCS platform unites computing, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.

Key products with in its UCS platform are Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers supported by fabric interconnects which include its lossless FCoE interconnect switch that consolidates input/output with in the system, server chassis, fabric extenders, and network adapters.

• Cisco Application Networking Services consist of a portfolio of application networking solutions designed to enable secure delivery of applications with in data centers and across WANs to remote and branch office users. The company’s solutions are designed to help facilitate the deployment and delivery of business applications across an entire organization.

A key product with in its application networking services category is Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), a WAN optimization solution that is enabled for SaaS-based applications and the Integrated Service Router G2’s Services Ready Engine.

The company provides storage area networking (SAN) products for data center environments designed to deliver multilayer, scalable, and secure connectivity between servers and storage systems, including products, such as storage arrays and tape drives. These products incorporate intelligent network features, such as advanced network security, traffic management, server virtualization, SAN consolidation, and pay-as-you-grow option to permit users to scale from an entry-level departmental switch to edge connectivity in enterprise SANs, and also incorporate tools that are designed to help make storing, retrieving, and protecting critical data across various distributed environments.

• The Cisco MDS 9000 Series of configurable Fiber Channel fabric switches is the key product line with in its storage area networking product category.

Other Products

Primarily consists of optical networking products, emerging technologies, such as physical security and video surveillance, and digital media systems."

BusinessWeek 5.2012

Countries Using Products

It operates in three geographic segments: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China (APJC).

Tech & Business Partners

• Strategic Alliances

The company has strategic alliances with Accenture Ltd; AT&T Inc.; Cap Gemini S.A.; Citrix Systems, Inc.; EMC Corporation; Fujitsu Limited; Intel Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation; Italtel SpA; Johnson Controls Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; NetApp, Inc.; Nokia Corporation; Nokia Siemens Networks; Oracle Corporation; SAP AG; Sprint Nextel Corporation; Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.; VMware, Inc.; Wipro Limited; and Xerox Corporation. Cisco Strategic Partners

• Cisco Global Services Alliance

• September 2011, Cisco Systems, Inc. announced it is collaborating with Microsoft Corporation to deliver data center virtualization solutions designed to provide improved scalability and operational control of Microsoft Windows Server 8 virtual environments.

• September 2011, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Budapest University of Technology and Economics have launched a laboratory for training and research in the new IP version 6, or IPv6, in Hungary.

• October 2011, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Citrix Systems announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to develop and deliver solutions that help customers accelerate large-scale desktop virtualization deployments.

• October 2011, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company collaborate on blade switch. These companies worked together to develop a switch for HP's blade server systems to address the needs of joint customers.

• November 2011, KT Corp. and Cisco Systems, Inc. announced a joint venture to tap demand from city governments and industries to remotely control buildings and infrastructures using wireless technologies.

• November 2011, 'KT Corp. and Cisco announced a global strategic collaboration to bridge the IT and communications markets. The collaboration, which combines KT's communications infrastructure and expertise with Cisco networking and communications innovations, is based on a relationship which spans across Smart+Connected Communities, business to business (B2B) services, and cloud computing.

• November 2011, Cisco Systems, Inc. announced the launch of its Cisco healthcare solution pilot in collaboration with the Government of Madhya Pradesh (MP) in Sehore.

• December 2012, Cisco Systems, Inc., European Investment Bank (EIB), and Riyada Enterprise Development jointly announced the launch of Lebanon Growth Capital Fund, which would provide long-term capital and institutional support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Lebanon.

• September 2011, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital announced a collaboration to develop the 'Hospital of the Future.' Cisco technologies and solutions will provide SiPH with innovations in the areas of wireless mobility, security, voice and video to develop a borderless hospital for the next-generation in patient care and hospital administration.

• January 2012, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Proximetry, Inc. are extending their collaboration to address the performance management requirements of multiservice Field Area Network (FAN) GridBlocks with AirSync.

• March 2012, Mantri Developers Private Ltd. announced its collaboration with Cisco Systems, Inc.to develop new ICT-enabled real estate models Mantri Connected Communities and Smart Homes.

• May 2012, Cisco Systems, Inc. announced that it has joined forces with the Ministry of Government Estates and Information Services in Bermuda to launch the Cisco Networking Academy in the island. The Networking Academy program would provide Bermudians with the opportunity to receive information and communications technology (ICT) education through effective in-classroom learning combined with innovative cloud-based curricula and tools to prepare students for careers in the 21st-century global economy.

• May 2012, Bright House Networks, LLC and Cisco Systems Inc. announced that they are working together to help enterprises, government, healthcare, and education institutions better handle security defenses in their networks... " BusinessWeek 5.2012

Reports

• Inside Cisco's eavesdropping apparatus Cnet

• Cisco locks customers out of their own routers, only lets them back in if they agree to being spied upon and monetized boingboing by Cory Doctorow

• Leaked Cisco document: "‘Great Firewall’ of China Was a Chance to Sell More Routers" By Sarah Lai Stirland Wired 5.2008
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems

• Spirent Testing Reports for Cisco Next Generation Mobile Networks

• "To secure the network at Argonne National Laboratory, Scott Pinkerton, network services manager for the lab, uses a mix of NetFlow traffic analysis and customized device scripting to tie together different Cisco-based security products, such as firewalls, VPN gear and intrusion detection/prevention system (IDS/IPS) hardware... "Network World 2006

People Responsible

Board of Directors

• John Chambers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cisco

Member of Acquisition Committee Age: 62

1993-Present: Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Member of Acquisition Committee Cisco Systems, Inc., Trustee, Cisco Systems Foundation, Cisco Cable Products and Solutions A/S

President and CEO, American Internet Corporation

CEO, Combinet, Inc.

President and CEO, WebLine Communications Corporation

Director, PipeLinks, Inc.

President, CEO, NetSys Technologies

Co-founder and Co-Chairman of Executive Council, TechNet

Director, The International Engineering Consortium

Trustee, Silatech

• Education*

MBA 1975 - Indiana University, Bloomington, JD 1974 - West Virginia University, BA - West Virginia University, BS - West Virginia University

• Other Affiliations*

Growth Networks, Inc., InfoGear Technology Corporation, StrataCom, Inc., TransMedia Communications, Inc., WebLine Communications Corporation, Wang Global, Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., HyNEX Ltd.

• Michael Capellas, Head of Joint Ventures Cisco, Director,

Chairman of Finance Committee and Chairman of Acquisition Committee

Age: 56

Frank A. Calderoni has been the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Cisco Systems, Inc. since February 15, 2008. Mr. Calderoni joined Cisco in 2004 and is responsible for leading a finance team of approximately 600. Has served as a Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions Finance at Cisco Systems, Inc. until February 15, 2008. He served as a Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations and Business Development, the Senior Vice President of Customer Advocacy, and the Chief Marketing Officer to support and drive the sales, services, and marketing cycle at Cisco.

Mr. Calderoni served as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of QLogic Corp. from February 2002 to May 2004.

From February 2000 to February 2002, Mr. Calderoni served as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration of SanDisk Corporation, an international flash-data storage company.

He served as a Vice President of Finance and Operations of Global Small Business of International Business Machines Corporation from 1999 to February 2000. He spent 21 years at IBM Corporation. While at IBM he held Chief Financial Officer responsibilities for several divisions, including Global Small Business, Storage Systems, and within the IBM Server Group. From 1979 to 1999, Mr. Calderoni held various management positions, including Controller of Storage Systems Division, Server Group Controller and System 390 division Director of finance and planning at IBM.

He has been a Director of Adobe Systems Inc. since May 14, 2012.

• EDUCATION*

Mr. Calderoni holds a BS in Finance and Accounting from Fordham University and an MBA in finance from Pace University.

• Owen Chan, Chairman and CEO of Greater China Cisco

• Thomas Lam, President and Vice Chairman of Cisco Greater China Operations

• Jim Sherriff, Chairman and CEO of Cisco China Operations.

• John Morgridge, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Age: 78

• Roderick McGeary, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Age: 60

• Richard Kovacevich, San Francisco Symphony

Age: 67

• Carol Bartz Ph.D., Cisco Systems, Inc.

Age: 62

• Jerry Yang, Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Korea Ltd.

Age: 42

• John Hennessy Ph.D., Stanford University

Age: 57

• M. Burns, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

Age: 51

• Larry Carter, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Age: 68

• Arun Sarin, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Age: 55

• Steven West, Autodesk, Inc.

Age: 55

• Brian Halla, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Age: 64

Management Team