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2015

Chuck Robbins becomes CEO

Leadership

Chuck Robbins becomes CEO

2015

Chuck Robbins is appointed CEO of Cisco. In 2017 he is elected Chairman of the Board. As Chairman and CEO, Chuck is focused on helping companies, cities and countries around the world as they look to Cisco to connect everything and everyone by building the highly secure, intelligent platform for digital business. In his 20 years at Cisco, he has served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, Senior Vice President of The Americas, Senior Vice President of U.S. Enterprise, Commercial and Canada; Senior Vice President of U.S. Commercial Sales; and Segment Vice President, U.S. and Canada channel organization, where he was instrumental in helping build the industry's most powerful partner program.

Chuck Robbins is appointed CEO of Cisco. In 2017 he is elected Chairman of the Board. As Chairman and CEO, Chuck is focused on helping companies, cities and countries around the world as they look to Cisco to connect everything and everyone by building the highly secure, intelligent platform for digital business. In his 20 years at Cisco, he has served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, Senior Vice President of The Americas, Senior Vice President of U.S. Enterprise, Commercial and Canada; Senior Vice President of U.S. Commercial Sales; and Segment Vice President, U.S. and Canada channel organization, where he was instrumental in helping build the industry's most powerful partner program.

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1994

San Jose campus opens

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San José campus opens

1994

Spurred by our phenomenal growth and cementing our founding in Silicon Valley, Cisco opens our San José Campus, moving corporate headquarters to our first custom-designed site.

Five people, four women including Susan Hammer and Cisco CEO John Chambers, break ground on the San Jose campus with shovels
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2000

Market capitalization

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Market capitalization

2000

Cisco became the world’s most valuable company, in terms of market capitalization, on March 27, with a high of $82 a share (market cap: $569B).

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1992

Cisco 3000 Series Router

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Cisco 3000 Series Router

1992

Announced in 1992, the 3000 series heralds our next generation router exclusively enabling flash configuration and software upgrades remotely.

Cisco 3000 from a three quarter view
Cisco 3000 from the back
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1990

Networkers Users Symposiums launches

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Networkers Users Symposiums launches

1990

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As networking booms with new levels of connection, and more challenges in connectivity, we launch Networkers Users symposiums - also known as "Networkers." The conference, later renamed CiscoLive!, enables customers to learn, collaborate, and grow the industry together.

A banner reads "networkers" in funky font as conference attendees mill between booths at Networkers
Two cisco representatives stand at computer terminals in front of the Cisco Systems Career Certification and Training booth at Networkers
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1985

Company headquarters established

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Company headquarters established

1985

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While early experiments in multi-protocol routers started with running cable through the Stanford University campus, the couple establishes their headquarters at their Atherton home.

While early experiments in multi-protocol routers started with running cable through the Stanford University campus, the couple establishes their headquarters at their Atherton home.

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1989

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) napkin

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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) napkin

1989

Cisco’s Kirk Lougheed and IBM’s Yakov Rekhter sketch out BGP over lunch at a 1989 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting. Their networking innovation, still an essential routing protocol for the global Internet, is as integral today as it was when originally deployed, enabling efficient routing and dramatic growth.

A black and white drawing of border gateway protocol's state diagram, at the bottom is the contact information of the two writers, Lougheed at Cisco and Yakov from IBM with their phone numbers and work times with time zones
Black handwriting on an aged page outlining a list of features of the border gateway protocol
Black handwriting on an aged page outlining the internal rules for the Border Gateway protocol

Kirk Lougheed, co-creator and Cisco's employee number 4, explains how BGP came to be.

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1989

The Packet launches

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The Packet launches

1989

A customer newsletter The Packet launches to connect customers and users with the fast changing company. Cisco's early success is in part thanks to our openess to customer needs, suggestions, and criticisms in product development and use.

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A customer newsletter The Packet launches to connect customers and users with the fast changing company. Cisco's early success is in part thanks to our openess to customer needs, suggestions, and criticisms in product development and use.

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1989

First promotional video

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First promotional video

1989

This early video features our first four products: the AGS (Advanced Gateway Server), MGS (Midsized Gateway Server), CGS (Compact Gateway Server), and the mini-chassis STS-10.

This early video features our first four products: the AGS (Advanced Gateway Server), MGS (Midsized Gateway Server), CGS (Compact Gateway Server), and the mini-chassis STS-10.

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1990

Engineer’s cap

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Engineer's cap

1990

This cap, a give away to attendees at the first Networkers Users Conference, helped create community. This spirit inspired an on-going tradition of unusual hats that continues today at Cisco Live!

This cap, a give away to attendees at the first Networkers Users Conference, helped create community. This spirit inspired an on-going tradition of unusual hats that continues today at Cisco Live!