Cisco offers a wide range of products and networking solutions designed for enterprises and small businesses across a variety of industries. See our digital transformation solutions across Cisco industries - from managing costs and compliance, to large scale networks, to remote team solutions. With annual revenues of more than 50 billion U.S. Dollars, Cisco is one of the leading B2B network and telecom equipment vendors worldwide. The company was founded in December 1984 and, as of 2019. As part of a rebranding campaign in 2006, Cisco Systems adopted the shortened name 'Cisco' and created 'The Human Network' advertising campaign. These efforts were meant to make Cisco a 'household' brand—a strategy designed to support the low-end Linksys products and future consumer products. Cisco's fixed and modular, core, distribution, and LAN access switches have been designed for the era of intent-based networking.

Cisco Consumer Products Network & Wireless Cards Drivers

Cisco Systems' products and services focus upon three market segments—enterprise and service provider, small business and the home.

Corporate market[edit]

'Corporate market' refers to enterprise networking and service providers.

Enterprise networks

Products in this category are Cisco's range of routers, switches, wireless systems, security systems, WAN acceleration hardware, energy and building management systems and media aware network equipment.^[1][2]

Collaboration

IP video and phones, TelePresence, HealthPresence, unified communications, call center systems, enterprise social networks and Mobile applications^[3]

Datacenter and Virtualization

unified computing, unified fabric, data centre switching, storage networking and cloud computing services.^[4]

IP NGN (Next Generation Networks)

High-end routing and switching for fixed and mobile service provider networks, broadcast video contribution/distribution, entitlement and content delivery systems.^[5]

Security

Stealthwatch, Identity Services Engine (ISE), Tetration, Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Firewall Management Center (FMC), SecureX, Umbrella, CloudLock, DUO, Secure Email, Cisco Cloud Mailbox Defense, Secure Web Appliance, Cloud Secure Email, Secure Email and Web Manager, AnyConnect, Virtual Private Network, Intrusion Detection Prevention System (IDPS), TALOS.

Note: Cisco is the biggest security company in the world.

Small businesses[edit]

Small businesses include home businesses and (usually technology-based) startups.^[6]

Routers and switches

The machines that route and redirect packets across a network, including those for networks of smart meters.^[7]

Security and surveillance

IP cameras, data and network security etc.^[8]

Voice and conferencing

VOIP phones and gateway-systems, WebEx, video conferencing

Wireless

Indoor Wi-Fi Access points, Wireless Controller

Network storage systems

Persistent people storage on networks, either in the traditional sense or in a cloud-like manner.

Home user[edit]

'Home user' refers to individuals or families who require networking services in the home.^[9] (Link to cited archived page broken, incorrect, or otherwise nonfunctional)

Broadband

Broadband refers to cable modems.

Flip Video

With the acquisition of Pure Digital Technologies, Cisco began to sell a line of video-recording devices called 'Flip Video' that had been Pure Digital's only line of products. This line of products was not as popular as Cisco had thought it would have been, and on April 12, 2011, Cisco announced they were discontinuing all Flip camera production.^[10][11] Cisco's ūmi product line, video conferencing for the home, also proved to be a short-lived bid for the consumer multimedia market and sales were discontinued.^[12]

Hardware[edit]

Data[edit]

• Datacenter products: Nexus Switches (1000v, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000,7000, 9000), MDS, Unified Computing System (UCS), Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
• Routers, including: 800 Series, Integrated Services Router (ISR) (1800, 2800, 3800), ISR G2 (1900, 2900, 3900), 2500 Series, 7200, 7600, 12000, ASR (900, 1000, 9000), Network Convergence System (NCS) 6000, and Carrier Routing System (CRS-1, CRS-3, CRS-X)
• Security appliances: ASA, ASA-X, ASA-CX, ASA with FirePOWER, PIX 500 series, Cisco Security Manager, Email Security Appliance (ESA), Web Security Appliance (WSA), Content Security Management Appliance (SMA)
• Catalyst switches: 1900 Series, 2900 / 2950 / 2960 / 3500XL Series, 3550 / 3750 Series, 3000 Series, Catalyst 4500/4900, 5000/5500 Series, 6500 Series, 6800 Series, 9300/9400/9500 Series
• Teleworker/Remote Connectivity—Cisco LAN2LAN Personal Office for ISDN, VPN 3000 Concentrators
• Cisco Wireless LAN products—Access Points, PCI/PCMCIA/USB Wireless LAN Adaptors, Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC), Wireless LAN Solutions Engines (WLSE), Wireless Control System (WCS), Location Appliances, Long range antennas

Telephony products[edit]

• Collaboration Systems—Cisco TelePresence (Cisco Manufacturing Mobile Video Collaboration with Librestream, Cisco acquired Tandberg, the world leader in Telepresence systems), ^[13]
• IP Telephony (VoIP), Servers and Appliances
• Cisco Unified IP Phones—Wireless IP Phone 7920, 7945, 7965, 7942, 8900 series, 9900 series, 6900 series

Servers / application appliances[edit]

• Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (server that controls Application Centric Infrastructure)
• Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), optimizes the performance of any TCP-based applications
• Unified Computing: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), virtual server platform
• Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE): Application Delivery Controller (now discontinued)
• Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers (Mini, B460 M4, B420 M4, B260 M4, B200 M4, B480 M5, B200 M5)^[14]
• Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers (C460 M4, C240 M4, C220 M4, C480 M5, C240 M5, C220 M5), ^[15]
• Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects (6200 series, 6300 series), ^[16]

Experimental[edit]

• CLEO (router) (Cisco Low Earth Orbit router), an Internet router that was integrated into the UK-DMC Disaster Monitoring Constellation satellite
• IRIS (Internet Routing in Space) (Cisco Internet Routing in Space)

Other products[edit]

• Cisco Cius: a new Android-based collaboration tablet (now discontinued)
• Set Top Boxes (High Definition PVRs)—Cable/IP
• Flip, pocket camera (Discontinued in April 2011)^[17]

Software[edit]

Operating systems[edit]

• Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
  • IOS-XE
• CatOS—Catalyst Switch Operating System
• Operating systems for Cisco Nexus switches
  • NX-OS—Nexus Operating System
  • ACI-mode switch software (for Application Centric Infrastructure)
• Starent Operating System (StarOS)

VPN/remote connectivity[edit]

• Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, for connecting to virtual private networks (replaces Cisco Systems VPN Client)
• Cisco Systems VPN Client, for connecting to virtual private networks
• Clean Access Agent, Cisco NAC Appliance

Cisco Consumer Products Network & Wireless Cards Drivers

Telephony/VoIP[edit]

• Cisco CallManager / Cisco CallManager Express
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM)
• Cisco Unified Operations Manager (CUOM)— a NMS for voice. It features real-time monitoring of all system elements, and performs automatic discovery for the entire system and provides contextual diagnostics for troubleshooting.
• Cisco IP Communicator is a VoIP softphone software application. It can register with a Cisco Unified Communications Manager or Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express using either SIP or Cisco's proprietary Skinny Client Control Protocol.
• Webex, Collaboration Tools

Other[edit]

• Cisco Active Network Abstraction
• Cisco Fabric Manager
• Data Center Management and Automation—Cisco Intelligent Automation
• Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, a job scheduler
• CiscoView
• CiscoWorks Network management, software
• Cisco Eos, a software platform
• Packet Tracer, didactic network simulator
• Cisco Network Magic Pro
• Cisco Security Manager
• Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM)
• Cisco Security Prime Device Manager
• Cisco Prime Infrastructure
• Cisco Adaptive Prime Security Device Manager (for the ASA-CX)
• Cisco Firepower Management Center (for the ASA FirePOWER)
• Cisco IPS Device Manager (for single IPS devices)
• Cisco IPS Manager Express (for multiple IPS devices)
• Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
• PostOffice protocol (not to be confused with POP3, SMTP, or other mail delivery protocols). It is a Cisco proprietary protocol that runs over UDP on port 45000.^[18] It provides a communications vehicle between the sensors and the Director platform.

VoIP services[edit]

Cisco became a major provider of Voice over IP to enterprises, and is now moving into the home user market through its acquisitions of Scientific Atlanta and Linksys. Scientific Atlanta provides VoIP equipment to cable service providers such as Time Warner, Cablevision, Rogers Communications, UPC and others; Linksys has partnered with companies such as Skype, Microsoft and Yahoo! to integrate consumer VoIP services with wireless and cordless phones.

Hosted collaboration solution (HCS)[edit]

Cisco partners can offer cloud-based services based on Cisco's virtualized Unified Computing System (UCS). A part of the Cisco Unified Services Delivery Solution that includes hosted versions of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (UCM), Cisco Unified Contact Center, Cisco Unified Mobility, Cisco Unified Presence, Cisco Unity Connection (unified messaging) and Cisco Webex Meeting Center.^[19]

Network emergency response[edit]

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility mission,^[20] Cisco Tactical Operations (TACOPS) employees and Disaster Incident Response Team (DIRT) volunteers maintain two Network Emergency Response Vehicles (NERV)s.^[21] The vehicles are deployed by the TACOPS/DIRT teams during natural disasters and other public crises. The vehicles are self-contained and provide wired and wireless services including voice and radio interoperability, voice over IP, network-based video surveillance and secured high-definition video-conferencing for leaders and first responders in crisis areas with up to 3 Mbit/s of bandwidth (up and down) via a 1.8-meter satellite antenna.^[22]

NERVs are based at Cisco headquarters sites in San Jose, California and at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, allowing strategic deployment in North America. They can become fully operational within 15 minutes of arrival. High-capacity diesel fuel-tanks allow the largest vehicles to run for up to 72 hours continuously.^[23] The NERV has been deployed to incidents such as the October 2007 California wildfires; hurricanes Gustav, Ike and Katrina; the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, tornado outbreaks in North Carolina and Alabama in 2011; and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.^[24][25] Cisco never charges for TACOPS/DIRT team deployments.^[26]

The Tactical Operations team maintains and deploys smaller, more portable communication kits to emergencies outside of North America. In 2010, the team deployed to assist in earthquake recovery in Haiti and in Christchurch (New Zealand). In 2011, they deployed to flooding in Brazil, as well as in response to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.^[21][27]

In 2011, Cisco received the Innovation Preparedness award from the American Red Cross Silicon Valley Chapter for its development and use of these vehicles in disasters.^[28]

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You’ve likely shopped at their stores or bought their products at a department store: PVH is the company that owns brands like Calvin Klein, TOMMY HILFIGER, Van Heusen, IZOD, ARROW, Warner’s, Olga, Geoffrey Beene and True&Co.

In 2019, PVH had a massive $9.9 billion in revenue, a significant percentage of which is direct-to-consumer retail. With multitudes of physical locations and almost 40,000 associates across approximately 40 countries, the company needed to quickly and smoothly supercharge its e-commerce operations when the COVID pandemic resulted in the closure of its retail stores and those of its wholesale customers around the world in March 2020.

Investing for the future

In 2017, PVH experienced a mammoth snowstorm that caused everyone in the New York and New Jersey area to work from home. As Eileen Mahoney, EVP and CIO for PVH says, talking network infrastructure was a difficult but necessary conversation to have during that time. Making the decision to invest in Cisco technology—networks, collaboration tools, security— was a proactive strategy that proved essential for the future.

“We made the investment to install Meraki access points,” says Mahoney, “Being able to easily build that network with security and segmentation allowed us to offer guest services, Wi-Fi, and it also allowed us to build out interactive technology so that design, marketing and merchandising associates could see what an outfit would look like. With that, we were able to give our teams the ability to change images instantaneously.”

The Cisco technology that PVH utilized extended beyond just physical locations. Collaboration technology like Webex allowed associates to communicate with each other securely, RFID tags within the brick and mortar stores allowed PVH to know exactly where their inventory was sitting. The company had digitized their entire product lifecycle process, from product reviews with the design team, visual assortment, and fulfillment options, to consumer experience. So, when the majority of people shifted to remote work in March 2020, PVH was ready. The foundation was set to support PVH in delivering a quick route to market, and when the transition came, they were able to move quickly.

Overnight, the PVH team was seeing unmatched demands on their e-commerce sites. Mahoney and her team looked to see where they had visibility of inventory and then made the decision to move it to the channel where consumers were going. With their Cisco tech investments, they were able to present the information to business partners, quickly move inventory, fulfill from their warehouses, and give the consumers exactly what they wanted.

“Fundamental networking capability is ultimately what enabled agility for PVH at an enterprise scale,” says Amit Chetal, Cisco’s America's Retail Lead, “A single pane of glass to monitor the network, and integrated retail systems like POS, CRM, supplier collaboration, and easier management for support teams. PVH saw the vision that digital can be a differentiator for their brands and customers. It’s evident with their success, when you look at all their investments, digital has been the differentiators.”

Internal and external security is key

Enabling remote work for PVH’s almost 10,000 office associates associates was a success due to the right collaboration and security tools. When PVH suddenly had to fully enable remote workers from thousands of site locations, Mahoney and her team immediately thought of the security aspect.

“The first concern that came to mind was security,” says Mahoney, “Keeping our network protected with people working remotely, making sure our retail system data and consumer financial data were secure. Cisco Webex and Jabber were great for collaboration, but deploying VPN overnight provided that secure access remotely. We were able to go from 2,230 Webex users to 10,000 in the blink of an eye.”

Security is crucial for associates to work quickly and deliver on what the company needed. When PVH digitized its entire lifecycle business model, being on a secure network made it so that associates could maintain ownership of designs. It also prevented internal systems from being compromised. Email security appliances, firewalls, Cisco AnyConnect, and Cisco Umbrella helped to ensure that security.

On the consumer side, transaction security needed to be part of the process, as well. PVH saw April 2020 as some of their top sales days, even breaking previous Black Friday records. This proved to be a true test of their network infrastructure, as consumer demands were at an all-time high and online transactions needed to be made securely.

Collaborating like never before

PVH, like many other companies, may never be the same. Mahoney states that this time of reimagining the business allowed the company to use the right technology to transform their operating model.

“We are doing some things that we wouldn’t have done if we were in the office,” says Mahoney, “Having global calls to connect everybody together, it’s really enabling us to rethink how we’ll operate as a company even when we come out of the pandemic. It has really shown that with the right tools and technology, your operating model can change and change for the better. It’s allowed collaborations that we probably wouldn’t have had if we weren’t able to transition overnight.”

Tools like Meraki Wi-Fi, Cisco security, and Webex have helped PVH create amazing experiences for both their associates and their consumers. Starting with foundational infrastructure and layering capabilities on top allowed the retail corporation to pivot exactly when they needed to.

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