also lists different career fields on the site, with employee testimonials and more information on the day-to-day life at Cingular. VAULT CAREER LIBRARY 2005 Vault Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 W. Tasman Drive THE STATS San Jose, CA 95134-1706 Phone: (408) 526-4000 Employer Type: Public Company Fax: (408) 526-4100 Stock Symbol: CSCO www.cisco.com Stock Exchange: NASDAQ President, CEO and Director: John T. Chambers LOCATIONS 2004 Employees: 34,000 San Jose, CA (HQ) 2004 Revenue ($ mil.): $22,045 Bangalore Bucharest KEY COMPETITORS Moscow North Sydney Extreme Networks San Jose Jupiter Networks Tokyo Nortel Networks EMPLOYMENT CONTACT DEPARTMENTS Engineering Human Resources Finance Phone: (800) 818-9201 Management E-mail: apply@cisco.com Sales www.cisco.com/jobs Visit Vault at www.vault.com for insider company profiles, expert advice, VAULT CAREER career message boards, expert resume reviews, the Vault Job Board and more. LIBRARY Vault Guide to the Top Telecom Employers Cisco Systems, Inc. THE SCOOP Changing fortunes Cisco Systems was one of the brightest stars of the 1990s tech bubble. At its peak, the company was, briefly, the most valuable in the world with a market capitalization exceeding both Microsoft and General Electric. Cisco's fortunes have since taken a tumble from those lofty heights of early 2000. Yet the company remains a dominant player in networking with a 69 percent share of the switch market and 85 percent of the router market, and has recently mounted an impressive comeback. Switched on Cisco is the leading manufacturer of networking hardware such as routers, switches, and hubs. These devices constitute what is often called the "backbone" of the Internet. Switches and hubs are used to connect computers to each other, creating local area networks (LANs). Routers connect one network to another; for example, they can link a LAN to a wide-area network (WAN) such as the Internet. Cisco also develops and sells the software used to manage these networks. The company's primary customers are large corporat