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1993

Mosaic popularizes the Web

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Mosaic popularizes the Web

1993

Mosaic, the first browser supported by a major institution, starts the Web on the road from research project to blockbuster success.Unlike other browsers it was reliable and could be installed by amateurs. Along with other browsers around this time Mosaic added graphics within Web pages instead of in separate windows.

Mosaic, the first browser supported by a major institution, starts the Web on the road from research project to blockbuster success.Unlike other browsers it was reliable and could be installed by amateurs. Along with other browsers around this time Mosaic added graphics within Web pages instead of in separate windows.

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1993

1st CCIE award

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1st CCIE award

1993

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, or CCIE, is a technical certification offered by Cisco Systems. The first certification awarded was numbered 1024, a nod to the unreserved port numbers in TCP/IP.

By January 2000, 4451 people worldwide acheived CCIE status. By Novemember 2017, 59,737 CCIEs were listed in the Hall of Fame.

A table with two columns, CCIE Certification and Lab Exam Topics, is broken down by each CCIE certification sub-type with the following info: Routing and Switching IP and non-IP routing; non-IP desktop protocols such as Novell IPX and AppleTalk; bridge and swithc-related technologies; voice over IP; network security; configuring ATM, WAN switching: Installing Cisco WAN switches; stratview plus installgation and maintenance; BPX/AXIS switch and service configuration; virtual trunking and tiered networks; ISP-DIAL: Firewall and security; dial on demand routing; ISDN; customer premise equip-to-access server connections; IP routing and tunneling; virtual private dial network; quality of service; roaming, SNA/IP integration: Briding and LAN (token Ring) concepts; switches and switching concepts; data-link switching plus (DLSw+) concepts; CIP; SNA network design, Network Design: Porotocols and technologies used in designing network core, distribution and access layers; SNA/IP migration; multiservice, campus, and WAN design; network management
A world map shows the number of global CCIE professionals broken down by continent or country in areas with more CCIE graduates as of January 2000. Asia: 476, Australia: 176, New Zealand: 34, Canada 128, US 2031, South America 96, Europe 1432, Africa 78, with a total of 4451 people worldwide had achieved CCIE status.
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1993

Al Gore awarded Cisco Circle Award

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Al Gore awarded Cisco Circle Award

1993

Cisco Systems awards the first annual Cisco Circle Award to Vice President Albert Gore in recognition of his visionary leadership in building global awareness of computer networking through the National Information Highway Initiative.

Cisco Systems awards the first annual Cisco Circle Award to Vice President Albert Gore in recognition of his visionary leadership in building global awareness of computer networking through the National Information Highway Initiative.

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1993

Crescendo acqusition

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Crescendo acqusition

1993

Cisco's first acquisition is Crescendo Communications Inc. It's high-speed switching capabilities became the Catalyst workgroup switch and the CDDI/FDDI workgroup concentrator.

Cisco's first acquisition is Crescendo Communications Inc. It's high-speed switching capabilities became the Catalyst workgroup switch and the CDDI/FDDI workgroup concentrator.

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1993

Sale of 100,000th router

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Sale of 100,000th router

1993

Commemorating the sale of our 100,000th router, within 5 years we sell our millionth.

Commemorating the sale of our 100,000th router, within 5 years we sell our millionth.

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1993

Second Harvest Food Bank partnership

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Second Harvest Food Bank partnership

1993

Second Harvest Food Bank is the first community group Cisco supports with cash, infrastructure, food, and staff volunteers. The group was selected because of its wide reach in food distribution, providing the opportunity for maximum potential impact. Second Harvest estimated that the infrastructure support alone equaled providing an additional 2 million meals.

Second Harvest Food Bank is the first community group Cisco supports with cash, infrastructure, food, and staff volunteers. The group was selected because of its wide reach in food distribution, providing the opportunity for maximum potential impact. Second Harvest estimated that the infrastructure support alone equaled providing an additional 2 million meals.