How to pronounce “cisco” in English

Cisco Systems has been a heavy acquirer for years.

Cisco and I spoke to a hundred countries

Cisco here, right?

Cisco has a very superb sales process.

So Cisco had Cisco Capital, and we were very conservative about who Cisco capital put money out to.

Remember Cisco Systems, the great company-- it's still a great company-- went public in the 1990s?

And Cisco no longer needed to show $0.01 above consensus.

like Cisco, who wanted to give their employees better quality food.

of Cisco was based on, right?

Example-- Cisco moving into consumer markets, the Netgear acquisition, I think it was.

So Cisco, one of the reasons they went into consumer electronics, Netgear, was to compensate for the fact that the enterprise market was slowing down.

At Cisco -- Cisco is a company with about 65,000 or so employees, over $30 billion in revenues.

and Cisco.

to Cisco, and we talked almost for a year before I finally said yes.

But Eric Yuan left Cisco or had to leave Cisco after Cisco's management turned down Yuan's pitch

And we went to Cisco and said, put this stuff in your router.

Remember the NSA intercepted Cisco's routers being sent to the Syrian telephone company?

If I think Cisco makes vegetable oil, the story I'm going to tell you about Cisco is going to make no sense at all.

And then I left Cisco, and I did a lot of research, and it's based on a lot of other companies as well.

But after Cisco got started, she found it inhospitable and left.

According to Cisco, we'll see more than 40 billion devices internet-enabled over the next five years, as everything from thermostats to cars to refrigerators

You know Cisco's RND budget is 13 percent.

female #1: Cisco in China and that New York Times' story from a couple of weeks ago about Apple and the iPhone which was a --

had major anxiety Steve Cisco you're on in five minutes oh really and I noticed

John Chambers from Cisco was there talking about the global routing questions that are going to be involved.

notice what happened with Cisco -- they got to a stage in their business where they had gaps in their product line.

1995 came to run Cisco Systems and he's pretty well-known for many things.

like the Cisco system that a lot of people have experience with now are already dramatically different than those early experiences.

Life" area -- and Cisco is driving a lot of this -- is, video.

So at Cisco, we are focused in four areas that drive our technology strategy very broadly.

You probably saw today Cisco announced our intention to acquire Tandberg, which makes desktop video conferencing.

smart engineers at Cisco develop a piece of software for me where it's tracked and it creates for me, What are the words that are appearing most frequently?

But the culture at Cisco is very family-focused. We sort of, John Chambers always talks about this, and he calls it the "Cisco Family.” And even when he was interviewing me to come

We're not Cisco.

CTO of Cisco?” Yeah.

diverse females um The Cisco ad had um women like different types of heels which I thought was kind of cool because

He used to work at Cisco.

This is a study that Cisco did with the idea that three out of five students-- and these are college and then young

he said that early on they were Cisco was you know just focused on the hardware routers and switches kind of

We all use TCP/IP and Cisco routers, and Microsoft Word, and PDF files.

So the fun part was Cisco was going to emerging markets in a big way.

Now everybody uses TCP/IP and Cisco routers and iPhones, Chrome browsers.

I spoke to Vets Network at Cisco.

or being very critical of Cisco's role in providing technology to China which facilitates their censorship and then on the other hand 10 months ago giving Cisco an innovation award.

And as a leader at Cisco applying that across Cisco?

So we do it that way at Cisco.

everybody's saying so whether you're Cisco or New York Times company which has about.com there or whether you're you know for whom I used to consult or

Now, Cisco, a Silicon Valley giant at the time, a very large, successful, profitable, a Fortune 500 member, acquired WebEx back in 2007.

weeks ago I spent some time with former Cisco CEO John Chambers at his house we were talking about his book connecting