Cisco provides the essential infrastructure to help organizations thrive in the AI era. By combining networking, security, observability, and collaboration, it enhances the way people and technology work together.

In 1984, Cisco started with a simple idea: to connect two different networks to share information. Their first multiprotocol router (1986) enabled communication between different networks and became a cornerstone of the emerging internet infrastructure. These breakthroughs made email, streaming, global e-commerce, and everything that followed possible. From the beginning, the network exhibited a pattern: it not only connected but also unified technologies and standards, laying the groundwork for the digital transformations that would follow. The network was no longer just infrastructure – it evolved into an integrated platform that encompassed voice, video, data, and wireless connectivity.