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2024 Awarded Best Office Phone for CP-8861 model by PhonePrices.co.uk.
May 2024 Cisco and Tata Communications partnered to launch Webex Calling in India.
April 24 2024 Chuck Robbins met with Pope Francis and signed the Rome Call for AI ethics at the Vatican, endorsing principles for responsible and ethical AI use.
February 15 2024 Cisco announced it would lay off more than 4,000 employees (5% of its global workforce) and lowered its annual revenue forecast due to economic challenges.
2023 Cisco announced plans to begin manufacturing equipment in India.
2023 Cisco reported annual earnings of US$12.6 billion and total revenue of US$57 billion, representing a 10.6% increase from the previous fiscal year.
October 2023 Announced as the Official Primary Partner of the McLaren F1 Academy programme, with branding to be carried on Bianca Bustamante's car, race suit, and team kit in the 2024 F1 Academy season.
September 21 2023 Cisco announced the acquisition of cybersecurity firm Splunk in a $28 billion deal, its largest acquisition to date, set to be completed on March 18, 2024.
July 7 2023 The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the lower court's decision, ruling that the Falun Gong practitioners' lawsuit against Cisco may proceed to trial.
February 2023 Cisco wrote off the debt of Russian mobile operator MTS amounting to 1.234 billion rubles.
2022 Cisco completely stopped sales of equipment in Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine and discontinued service for previously sold devices.
2022 Partnership with McLaren Racing extended to Cisco as the Official Technology Partner.
October 2022 Cisco announced a partnership adding the Microsoft Teams app to its meeting devices.
October 26 2021 Cisco launched an AI-powered update to enhance virtual and hybrid in-person meetings and events in the Webex portfolio.
July 2021 Cisco announced that all employees would have the option to work remotely on a permanent basis.
February 2021 Cisco acquired IMImobile, a communications platform as a service (CPaaS) provider, to expand its Webex collaboration portfolio.
February 2021 Webex signed a multi-year partnership with McLaren Racing as the Official Collaboration Partner.
2020 The Australian Strategic Policy Institute accused Cisco of being among 82 major brands potentially connected to forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China.
2020 California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a lawsuit against Cisco and two of its employees, alleging caste discrimination against an Indian engineer based on his lower caste status.
2020 Ranked number four on Fortune magazine's List of the Top 100 Companies to Work For, based on an employee satisfaction survey.
October 2020 Cisco acquired BabbleLabs, a technology company, to enhance its Webex collaboration platform.
October 2020 Cisco was ordered to pay US$1.9 billion to Centripetal Networks for infringing on four cybersecurity patents.
September 2020 Cisco launched Webex Classrooms for virtual homeroom encounters.
August 2020 Cisco announced the creation of a new 130,000 square feet Midwest headquarters in Chicago at the Old Chicago Main Post Office, designed to accommodate 1,200 employees.
August 7 2020 Cisco completed the acquisition of network intelligence company ThousandEyes for around $1 billion.
May 15 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cisco reported 500 million meeting attendees and 25 billion meeting minutes for Webex in April 2020.
March 2020 SVP and GM of Enterprise Networking David Goeckeler left to become CEO of Western Digital, replaced by Todd Nightingale.
2019 DIT School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering becomes part of the newly formed Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), merging with the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB) and the Institute of Technology Tallaght (ITT).
2019 Cisco acquired CloudCherry (a customer experience management company) and Voicea (an artificial intelligence company).
2019 Ranked number one in Great Place to Work's World's Best Workplaces list.
January 2019 Joined Five9 as CTO and Head of A.I., following his former Cisco boss Rowan Trollope.
2018
Dell M1000e
Dell introduced the Dell PE MX7000, a new MX enclosure model representing the next generation of Dell enclosures, succeeding the M1000e design.
2018 Promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco DevNet, building upon her earlier founding of the platform.
2018 Cisco reported annual financial results with revenue of $49,330 million, net income of $110 million, total assets of $108,784 million, and a share price of $43.65, with a workforce of 74,200 employees.
September 2018 Cisco's market capitalization was valued at US$213.2 billion, with company shares trading at over $43 per share.
September 2018 Reported leaving Cisco Systems after a long tenure.
May 1 2018 Cisco Systems agreed to buy AI-driven business intelligence startup Accompany for $270 million.
April 18 2018 Cisco announced the integration of Cisco Spark into the Webex platform and rebranded Spark products to Webex.
December 11 2017 Chuck Robbins was elected executive chairman while retaining his CEO role, with Chambers becoming 'Chairman Emeritus'.
September 2017 John Chambers announced he would step down from the executive chairman role at the end of his term in December 2017.
August 2017 Announced as the new CEO of Pure Storage, replacing Scott Dietzen.
February 2017 Cisco launched Cisco Umbrella, a cloud-based secure internet gateway.
January 26 2017 Cisco founded the Innovation Alliance in Germany with eleven other companies, bringing together 40 sites and 2,000 staff.
January 2016 Cisco invested in VeloCloud, a software-defined WAN startup, contributing to its $27 million Series C funding round.
2015 The school was expected to be the first from the College of Engineering and Built Environment to relocate to the new DIT Grangegorman Campus in September 2018.
2015 Professor Michael Conlon was appointed as the head of the DIT School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
2015 Identified as a leading recipient of network security-related patents, with a portfolio of 6,442 security-related patents according to technology consulting firm LexInnova.
November 19 2015 Cisco co-founded the OpenFog Consortium with ARM Holdings, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, and Princeton University to promote fog computing development.
September 2015 The Falun Gong practitioners appealed the dismissed lawsuit to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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