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's total assets are C$173.24 Billion. A company’s total assets is the sum of all current and non-current assets, such as inventories, cash and cash equivalents, properties and equipment.