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Publicly Owned Cisco, also known as Cisco Systems, headquartered in US, was founded in 1984 and employs approximately 101,420 individuals. The company reported $56.7B in revenue as of 2025. Primarily focused on enterprise and telecoms software, Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment, and high-technology services and products.

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101,420

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Enterprise and telecoms software

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On September 10, 2025, Cisco announced a strategic collaboration with Tata Communications to reshape how businesses connect, manage, and scale their connected devices globally. Later, on an unspecified date, Cisco demonstrated the extended use of the 6GHz band for its Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 access points with Federated Wireless' system, highlighting Wi-Fi 6E's readiness for large enterprise deployments and paving the way for Wi-Fi 7. Also, Cisco joined the Inter-American Association of Telecommunications Companies (ASIET) as a member. Finally, Cisco signed cooperation memoranda with the Armenian Ministry of High Technologies, the Tumo center for creative technologies, and the Foundation of Technological Education to develop IT-focused education in Armenia using the Cisco Networking Academy.

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Cisco offers 4 products in the telecoms tech, pro AV and enterprise tech industries. Cisco's product portfolio comprises of conferencing, ecommerce and customer journey technology, enterprise and telecoms software and digital signage and professional display.

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Cisco's revenues were $56.7B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Cisco's revenue into 4 different product categories, the largest of which is 5G MEC, which represents 65% of Cisco's revenue.

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Mar

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2026

18:30

Partnerships and Alliances, Capital Investment, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

NVIDIA and Global Telecom Leaders Commit to Build 6G on Open and Secure AI-Native Platforms

Leading operators and infrastructure providers including Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp. and T-Mobile will build on open and trusted software-defined wireless platforms. The commitment complements NVIDIA’s ongoing collaborations with industry and governments across Europe, Japan, Korea, the U.K. and the U.S. to advance AI-native 6G innovation.

AiThority

Feb

24th

2026

05:04

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Cullen Jennings

Dr. Cullen Jennings is a Cisco Fellow and CTO for Audio/Video Collaboration and AI at Cisco. He has worked on VoIP systems since the ‘90s, building platforms hosting billions of audioconferencing minutes a day. He drives standards for major internet voice communications and leads Cisco’s collaboration technology group.

NAB Show

Feb

23rd

2026

18:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Omdia survey results: AI comes to transport network operations

Communications service providers (CSPs) continue to make steady progress in automating their transport networks. As they automate transport, these operators increasingly see the potential for AI in a complementary role. Automation and AI are highly symbiotic: AI helps improve the output of automation while automation helps AI do its job.

Light Reading

Feb

19th

2026

11:58

B2B Tag

Lightware and Cisco integration transforms Hong Kong bank

Hong Kong: Systems integrator Global Vision Engineering (GVE) has delivered an AV upgrade for a global investment bank in Hong Kong, modernising its meeting rooms to support hybrid workflows using Cisco and Lightware technologies. After evaluating several vendors, the bank chose Lightware for its reliable USB-C performance and seamless integration with the bank’s global Cisco conferencing standard.

Pro AVL Asia

Feb

18th

2026

03:00

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Qunnect and Cisco Demonstrate First Metro-Scale, High-Speed Quantum Entanglement Swapping Over Commercial Fiber

BROOKLYN, N.Y. , Feb. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Qunnect today announced the first entanglement swapping demonstration of its kind over deployed metro-scale fiber using a commercial quantum networking system. The demonstration, which achieved record entanglement swapping rates, combined Qunnect's room-temperature quantum hardware with Cisco's quantum networking software stack.

PR Newswire

Feb

14th

2026

18:47

Financial Results, New Offerings, Capital Investment, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

The week in telecoms: Cisco rides AI investment wave and European telcos invest in South America

Cisco set the tone last week with new AI networking products unveiled at its partner event in Amsterdam and a strong set of quarterly results. T-Mobile US held an analyst meeting outlining how it plans to address the new market challenges, and Telefonica completed another exit from South America, giving Millicom a new market in region.

Telecompaper

Feb

12th

2026

01:39

Financial Results, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Cisco raises dividend as quarterly sales growth accelerates to 10%

Cisco reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal second quarter to January, fueled by demand from hyperscalers to equip data centres. Record revenue of USD 15.3 billion was up 10 percent year over year, operating profit increased 21 percent to USD 3.8 billion, and net earnings jumped 31 percent to USD 0.80 per share, beating Cisco's forecasts. To reflect the strong performance, the company increased its quarterly dividend by 2 percent to USD 0.42 per share.

Telecompaper

Feb

10th

2026

05:34

Artificial Intelligence, Default (Finance), B2B Tag

Cisco Donates Project CodeGuard to Coalition for Secure AI

Framework Strengthens Secure-by-Default Practices in AI Coding Workflows OASIS Open, the global open source and standards consortium, announced that Cisco has donated Project CodeGuard, an AI model-agnostic security coding agent skills framework and ruleset, to the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), an OASIS Open Project.

AiThority

Feb

2nd

2026

18:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Cisco VXLAN Makes Olympic Debut for NBC Sports

NBC Sports will use Cisco to deliver AI networking technology for its all-IP production of the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, including the deployment of Cisco’s IP Fabric for Media at the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in Milan.

Sports Video Group

Feb

1st

2026

18:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Behind the Cisco Technology Connecting Super Bowl Fans

Cisco is powering the invisible backbone of Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium as the technology giant delivers secure, high-capacity connectivity for over 70,000 football fans. As an official technology partner of the NFL, Cisco's infrastructure enables seamless Wi-Fi, digital fan experiences, and network operations amid heightened bandwidth and speed demands. CLICK HERE to read more about how Cisco's security and networking is supporting the Big Game on Sun., Feb. 8.

4RFV International Broadcast News

Jan

29th

2026

08:54

B2B Tag

facing applications over ransomware in 2025

Exploitation of public-facing applications was the primary entry point for attackers in late 2025 amid a decrease in ransomware volume. Enterprise leaders managing digital transformation face a disappearing boundary between internal networks and the public internet.

Telecoms Tech News

Jan

26th

2026

08:58

Capital Investment, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Cisco survey reveals 90% of organisations expanding data privacy programmes

The latest edition of Cisco's 2026 Data and Privacy Benchmark study shows that 90 percent of organisations are looking to expand their privacy initiatives, with 93 percent suggesting they would invest more in privacy in the future. In the past 12 months, 38 percent of organisations surveyed had spent at least USD 5 million on data privacy activities, up from 14 percent in the 2025 report.

Telecompaper

Cisco's customers primarily consist of spectator Sports and telecoms companies. Examples of Cisco's customers include PLDT and Real Madrid C.F.. Cisco has commercial and technical partners like Ford Motor Company, Manchester City Football Club and Real Madrid C.F.. Examples of Cisco's suppliers include Intercom, Conviva and Ross Video.

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