If you have ever sent an e-mail or browsed a favorite website, chances are that your Internet transmissions have passed through Cisco equipment. Eighty-percent of the routing devices that connect the myriad hosts on the World Wide Web are sold by Cisco. Chances are equally good that you may not have heard of the company before.
Cisco has the most humble of beginnings.
Cisco was started by students at Stanford. His sweetheart, Sandra Lerner was an MBA student in the Business School. Sandy was more aggressive, rebellious, and somewhat socialist in her demeanor while Len was quiet and non-confrontational. Upon graduation, both took jobs as directors of the computer departments of their prospective schools. The story begins on Christmas Day in 1979 when new cutting-edge networking equipment from Xerox arrived at Stanford.