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No other single company is more involved than Cisco in making the Internet work for people. Cisco contributes a key element in the underlying infrastructure of the Internet; provides the broadest range of solutions for connecting to the Internet; and offers tools so companies can efficiently manage their Internet sites.
Please refer to the Products & Services portion of our web site at www.cisco.com for a specific listing of Cisco solutions.
Cisco is continually announcing new products. Please refer to our web site at www.cisco.com for product announcements and other relevant information.
Cisco went public on February 16, 1990 at a split-adjusted price of about 6 cents.
Cisco was incorporated on December 10, 1984 in California.
Please see the Corporate Development page for a complete listing of Cisco's publicly announced acquisitions.
Please visit the Annual Report website to review the latest Annual Report and Proxy Statement online. For SEC filings, please visit the SEC Filings page. If you require hard copies of any materials you may call the Investor Relations Department or submit a request through the contact form.
Cisco provides Annual Reports from 1999 to the present on the Annual Report website.
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For an upcoming earnings report, please visit the Events and News portion of the website. As the date approaches a link will be made available to listen to the earnings report via webcast.
Please visit the Analysts section for a list of the analysts following Cisco.
Cisco trades on the NASDAQ OMX. The stock symbol is CSCO.
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Please visit the Stock Splits section for a complete history of Cisco stock splits.
Cisco does issue dividends. Please see the Dividends & Stock Splits page for details. Please see the Personal Investing page for details on the Computershare Investment Plan, a Direct Stock Purchase and Dividend Reinvestment Plan for Cisco Systems, Inc. Common Stock.
Please see the first page of our most recent 10Q or 10K under SEC Filings for the most recent information about the number of shares outstanding.
Please visit the Events & News section for the latest information on Cisco's next earnings announcement.
Q1 FY2017: July 31, 2016 – October 29, 2016 Q2 FY2017: October 30, 2016 – January 28, 2017 Q3 FY2017: January 29, 2017 – April 29, 2017 Q4 FY2017: April 30, 2017 – July 29, 2017
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Investor confidence in public companies is essential to the functioning of the global economy. Our corporate governance policies provide a framework for the proper operation of our company, consistent with our shareholders' best interests and the requirements of the law. We are committed to providing financial information that is transparent, timely, complete, relevant and accurate. We are also committed to rigorously and diligently exercising our oversight responsibilities throughout the company, managing our affairs consistent with the highest principles of business ethics, and exceeding the corporate governance requirements of both federal law and the NASDAQ.
In our financial accounting and reporting practices, we are dedicated to ensuring that the high standards we have established are maintained. Our culture demands integrity and an unyielding commitment to strong internal practices and policies. We have the highest confidence in our financial reporting, underlying system of internal controls and our people, who are objective in their responsibilities and operate under the highest level of ethical standards. We value the confidence that our investors place in us. To read more about our corporate governance policies, please click here.
Cisco's Code of Business Conduct is monitored by Cisco's Ethics Program Office and is annually affirmed by our employees. This Code of Business Conduct applies to all employees of Cisco Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to as "Cisco") and to the members of Cisco's Board of Directors. This Code of Business Conduct has been designed to deter wrongdoing and to promote:
We believe that long-term, trusting business relationships are built by being honest, open and fair. We promise to uphold the highest professional standards in all global business operations. We also expect that those with whom we do business (including suppliers, customers or re-sellers) will adhere to the standards set by Cisco's Code of Business Conduct. To read our full Code of Business Conduct, please click here.
Please visit the Board of Directors section and the Executive Officers section.
Please visit the Committees section for a list of the committees and their members.
Please see the Governance Policies page to review these qualifications and other factors.
Shareholders may communicate with Cisco's Board of Directors through Cisco's Secretary by sending an email to bod@cisco.com, or by writing to the following address: Board of Directors, c/o Secretary, Cisco Systems, Inc., 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, California 95134. Cisco's Secretary will forward all correspondence to the Board of Directors except for spam, junk mail, mass mailings, product complaints or inquiries, job inquiries, surveys, business solicitations or advertisements, or patently offensive or otherwise inappropriate material. Cisco's Secretary may forward certain correspondence, such as product-related inquiries, elsewhere within Cisco for review and possible response.
Please see the "Board Composition – Majority of Independent Directors" section of Cisco's Corporate Governance Policies. Please see the Independent Directors section of the Proxy Statement in connection with Cisco's most recent Annual Meeting of shareholders for information about the independence status of each director."
Cisco has adopted a senior executive compensation recoupment policy. This policy is:
In the event of a restatement of incorrect financial results, the Compensation and Management Development Committee (the "Compensation Committee") will review all cash incentive awards under the Executive Incentive Plan ("bonuses") that were paid to executive officers (within the meaning of Rule 3b-7 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) for performance periods beginning after July 28, 2007 which occur during the restatement period. If any such bonus would have been lower had the level of achievement of applicable financial performance goals been calculated based on such restated financial results, the Compensation Committee will, if it determines appropriate in its sole discretion, to the extent permitted by governing law, require the reimbursement of the incremental portion of the bonus in excess of the bonus that would have been paid based on the restated financial results.
To recommend a prospective nominee for the Nomination and Governance Committee's consideration, submit the candidate's name and qualifications to Cisco's Secretary in writing to the following address: Cisco Systems, Inc., Attn: Secretary, 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, California 95134, with a copy to Cisco Systems, Inc., Attn: General Counsel at the same address. When submitting candidates for nomination to be elected at the Company's annual meeting of shareholders, shareholders must follow the notice procedures and provide the information required by the Company's Bylaws.
Please see the Corporate Citizenship and CSR Reports for more an in-depth discussion and more information.
Cisco Systems does not in any way participate in the censorship of information by governments. Moreover, Cisco complies with all U.S. Government regulations which prohibit sale of our products to certain destinations; or to users who misuse our products or resell them to prohibited users.
Some countries have chosen, as a matter of national policy, to restrict or limit access to information on the Internet to its citizens. The router functionality that may be employed by such nations to restrict this access is the same functionality that libraries and corporate network administrators use to block sites in accordance with policies that they establish. Whereas this functionality can be used for many different purposes, Cisco has not specially designed or marketed products for any government, or any regional market, to censor Internet content from citizens.
Cisco cannot determine what sovereign nations regulate and don't regulate in their own countries. Even within nations that have signed the United Nations Global Compact there is rich debate in the courts and in society, about access to the Internet, lines between commercial speech and political speech, and related issues. Cisco supports transparency in the way the Internet is used and complies with applicable regulations.
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