Leadership
IPO
1990
Cisco goes public on February 16, 1990, listed as “CSCO” on the NASDAQ. Cisco celebrates the public offering with a market capitalization of $224 million.
Author: Aaron Chiles
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First logo created
culture
First logo created
1985
Cisco's name derived from a shortening of San Francisco and dropped standard capitalization conventions for 'cisco Systems', the lower-case c a cultural touchpoint for early engineers. As early networking devices were known as bridges, an abstraction of the Golden Gate Bridge became the first logo, formed via parabolic equations by founder Len Bosack.
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AGS launches
innovation
AGS launches
1986
Cisco’s first networking innovation the AGS, Advanced Gateway Server, connects computers over local area and wide area networks, delivering state of the art multiprotocol routing and concurrent bridging.
As the first commercially available multi-protocol router, the AGS ushers in a new era of connectivity.
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First product, MEIS, ships
innovation
First product, MEIS, ships
1985
Our very first product wasn't technically a router, but instead the Massbus-Ethernet Interface Subsystem (MEIS), an ethernet adapter for DEC computers.
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cisco Systems founded
innovation
cisco Systems founded
1984
Founders Sandy Lerner (left) and Leonard Bosack (center) incorporate cisco Systems. They dream of disparate networks talking with each other and sharing information reliably. But in order for the networks to be truly interconnected, a technology has to be invented that can deal with the disparate local area protocols. With that dream, the multi-protocol router is born.
