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Future of Cisco Systems

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Rank
34
| Quantumrun Global 1000

Cisco Systems, Inc. (also known as Cisco) is a US technology conglomerate that operates globally. It is headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that manufactures, develops, and sells telecommunications equipment, networking hardware, and other high-technology products and services. Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as Jasper, WebEx, and OpenDNS, Cisco specializes in specific tech markets, such as energy management, domain security, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Cisco is the biggest networking company in the globe.

Home Country:
Industry:
Network and Other Communications Equipment
Website:
Founded:
1984
Global employee count:
73700
Domestic employee count:
37550
Number of domestic locations:
64

Financial Health

Revenue:
$49247000000 USD
3y average revenue:
$48516666667 USD
Operating expenses:
$17729000000 USD
3y average expenses:
$17842666667 USD
Funds in reserve:
$7631000000 USD
Market country
Revenue from country
0.53
Revenue from country
0.15

Asset Performance

  1. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Product
    Product/Service revenue
    37250000000
  2. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Service
    Product/Service revenue
    11990000000

Innovation assets and Pipeline

Global brand rank:
52
Investment into R&D:
$6296000000 USD
Total patents held:
12311
Number of patents field last year:
54

All company data collected from its 2016 annual report and other public sources. The accuracy of this data and the conclusions derived from them depend on this publicly accessible data. If a data point listed above is discovered to be inaccurate, Quantumrun will make the necessary corrections to this live page. 

DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY

Belonging to the telecommunications sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:

*First off, as Africa, Asia, and South America continue to develop over the next two decades, their populations will increasingly demand greater first world living amenities, this includes modern telecommunications infrastructure. Luckily, since many of these regions have been chronically underdeveloped, they have the opportunity to leapfrog into a mobile-first telecommunications network instead of a landline-first system. In either case, such infrastructure investment will keep telecom sector building contracts going strong into the foreseeable future.
*Similarly, internet penetration will grow from 50 percent in 2015 to over 80 percent by the late-2020s, allowing regions across Africa, South America, the Middle East and parts of Asia to experience their first Internet revolution. These regions will represent the biggest growth opportunities for telecom companies over the next two decades.
*Meanwhile, in the developed world, increasingly data-hungry populations will begin demanding ever greater broadband internet speeds, spurring investment into 5G internet networks. The introduction of 5G (by the mid-2020s) will enable a range of new technologies to finally achieve mass commercialization, from augmented reality to autonomous vehicles to smart cities. And as these technologies experience greater adoption, they will likewise spur further investment into building out nationwide 5G networks.
*By the late 2020s, as the cost of rocket launches becomes more economical (in part thanks to new entrants like SpaceX and Blue Origin), the space industry will expand dramatically. This will bring down the cost of launching telecom (internet beaming) satellites into orbit, thereby increasing the competition terrestrial telecom companies face. Similarly, broadband services delivered by drone (Facebook) and balloon (Google) based systems will add an additional level of competition, especially in underdeveloped regions.

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