About Cisco and Cisco Boot Camp in India

Cisco Systems, Inc.is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States,that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services.

Corporate history

Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a married couple who worked as computer operations staff members at Stanford University, later joined by Nicholas Pham, founded Cisco Systems in 1984. Lerner moved on to direct computer services at Schlumberger, moving full time to Cisco in 1987.

The name "Cisco" was derived from the city name, San Francisco, which is why the company's engineers insisted on using the lower case "cisco" in the early days. For Cisco's first product, Bosack adapted multiple-protocol router software originally written some years before by William Yeager, another Stanford employee who later joined Sun Microsystems. The company's first CEO was Bill Graves, who held the position from 1987 to 1988.In 1988, John Morgridge was appointed CEO.

While Cisco was not the first company to develop and sell a router, it was one of the first to sell commercially successful routers supporting multiple network protocols. Classical, CPU-based architecture of early Cisco devices coupled with flexibility of operating system IOS allowed for keeping up with evolving technology needs by means of frequent software upgrades.

Some models such as Cisco 2500 managed to stay in production for 5–8 years virtually unchanged. Although Cisco products had their roots in the enterprise environment, the company was quick to capitalize in emerging service provider market as well, entering market with successful product lines such as Cisco 7500 and GSR.

Cisco Hardware

• Datacenter products: Nexus Switches (1000v, 2000, 4000, 5000, 7000), MDS, Unified Computing System (UCS)
• Flip pocket camera
• Cisco SPA500 Series IP Phones
• Linksys SPA900 Series IP Phones
• Cisco Unified IP Phones (7945, 7965, 7942, 8900 series, 9900 series, 6900 series)
• Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE): Application Delivery Controller
• Routers, including: 837, 1000 Series, 2500 Series, 7600, 12000, 3600 Series, ASR Series and CRS-1 and CRS-3
• Cisco Security Manager
• Security appliances: ASA 5500, PIX 500 series
• Unified Computing: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) virtual server platform: with VMWare virtualization system run servers on Cisco hardware
• Catalyst switches: Cisco Catalyst 2900 Series, Cisco Catalyst 3000 Series, Catalyst 4500, Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
• Collaboration systems such as Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Manufacturing Mobile Video Collaboration with Librestream, Cisco acquired Tandberg, the world leader in Telepresence systems
• VOIP: Wireless IP Phone 7920
• CLEO: Low Earth Orbit router
• Cisco Wireless LAN
• Cisco Cius: a new Android-based collaboration tablet
• Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
• Set Top Boxes (High Definition PVRs)- Cable/IP

Cisco Software

• Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
• NX-OS
• IOS-XR
• Cisco Active Network Abstraction
• Cisco Fabric Manager
• Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client
• Cisco Systems VPN Client
• CiscoView
• Data Center Management and Automation – Cisco Intelligent Automation
• CiscoWorks Network Management software
• Clean Access Agent, Cisco NAC Appliance
• Cisco Eos
• Packet Tracer, didactic network simulator
• Cisco Network Magic Pro
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Cisco IP Communicator
• Cisco Quad
• Cisco Security Manager
• WebEx Collaboration Tools

Cisco Certifications

The widely respected IT certification programs available through Cisco Certifications bring valuable, measurable rewards to network professionals, their managers, and the organizations that employ them.

Five Levels of IT Certification

We offer five levels of general IT certification: Entry, Associate, Professional, Expert and Architect, the highest level of accreditation within the Cisco Career Certification program.

Eight Different Paths

Various tracks—such as Routing and Switching, Network Security, and Service Provider—are available, so that you can match your certification path to your job role or industry.

What height of Certification Does Cisco Offer?

Cisco has normally offered 3 levels of certification- Associate, Professional and Expert. Usually, these three levels correspond up with the CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE. Nowadays, Cisco recommend a new entry-level certification - the CCENT. Cisco also offers certifications and specializations in a range of subject called certification track. Moreover the most popular Routing and Switching path, Cisco also offers certification path in Network Design, Network Security, Service Provider, Storage Networking, and Voice.