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1995

Culture card

Culture card

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Key to Cisco's development is our commitment to building culture through shared mission and values. Early culture cards such as this are worn alongside employee keycard badges.

Laminated card that reads
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1995

“The Racket”

"The Racket"

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An internal April Fools joke, "The Racket" skewers early start-up Cisco culture.

An internal April Fools joke, "The Racket" skewers early start-up Cisco culture.

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1995

Virtual pattern patent

Virtual pattern patent

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Cisco earns patent No. 5,473,599 in IP technology. Improving resiliency of customer networks, a system and protocol are provided for routing data packets from a host on a LAN through a virtual address belonging to a group of routers.

Cisco earns patent No. 5,473,599 in IP technology. Improving resiliency of customer networks, a system and protocol are provided for routing data packets from a host on a LAN through a virtual address belonging to a group of routers.

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1995

First business units organized

First business units organized

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Cisco creates five distinct business units that reflect our major networking product groups, naming a vice president/general manager to head each group. Each business unit, Workgroup, ATM High End, Access, Core and IBM Internetworking, have their own marketing and engineering organization. This structure formalizes a product sector grouping intialized by Cisco's expansion into new business sectors.

Cisco creates five distinct business units that reflect our major networking product groups, naming a vice president/general manager to head each group. Each business unit, Workgroup, ATM High End, Access, Core and IBM Internetworking, have their own marketing and engineering organization. This structure formalizes a product sector grouping intialized by Cisco's expansion into new business sectors.

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1995

RTP campus opens

RTP campus opens

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Our new eastern headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina opens. In 1993, Cisco hires its first employee in North Carolina, growing to over 200 within two years. Simultaneous with the dedication, a second building with 50% more capacity is announced.

A group of employees stand behind a large construction beam covered in signatures at the RTP campus site
The steel beam outline of a building as the RTP campus is being built
A steel beam building with floors but no walls, with a crane in the background

A local TV profile, 'Success Stories', on Cisco's RTP expasion.

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1995

John Chambers becomes CEO

John Chambers becomes CEO

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One of Silicon Valley's longest tenured CEOs, John Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 becoming CEO in 1995. During his tenure Cisco revenue's grew from $1.2 billion in 1995 to $47 billion and 71,833 global employees in 2015 at his retirement.

One of Silicon Valley's longest tenured CEOs, John Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 becoming CEO in 1995. During his tenure Cisco revenue's grew from $1.2 billion in 1995 to $47 billion and 71,833 global employees in 2015 at his retirement.