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.
According to Cisco's latest financial reports the company has C$22.35 Billion in cash and cash equivalents. A companyโs cash on hand also refered as cash/cash equivalents (CCE) and Short-term investments, is the amount of accessible money a business has.