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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.
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.
Our very first product wasn't technically a router, but instead the Massbus-Ethernet Interface Subsystem (MEIS), an ethernet adapter for DEC computers.