Focus On Server Manufacturer: Cisco

Cisco, an American multinational tech conglomerate, was founded in 1984. Married computer scientists Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner were at Stanford University at the time. They were working to connect two separate networks housed in different buildings. They used cabling, bridges, and then routers to put the two networks together. They realized they needed something additional to enable the networks to “talk” to each other and transmit information. Thus, the multi-protocol router was born. The company name is derived from the city name, San Francisco, and its logo depicts the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge. The first product was shipped in 1986, and the company grew in leaps […]