Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American company in the telecommunications industry. It is primarily known for its routers and switches, which are used by a substantial part of the Internet backbones. Cisco was founded in December 1984 by a group of scientists (primarily Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner) from Stanford University near San Francisco.
Cisco stock (symbol: CSCO) underwent a total of 9 stock splits.The most recent stock split occurred on March 23rd, 2000.One CSCO share bought prior to March 18th, 1991 would equal to 288 CSCO shares today.