Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a major in the AI & Data Center segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain, headquartered in United States. Its key suppliers include Lumentum Holdings, Coherent, Ayar Labs. Its key customers include Microsoft.
Networking giant supplying AI data-center switching and silicon.
- Ticker
- NASDAQ: CSCO
- Headquarters
- United States
- Revenue
- $56.7B (FY2025) · +5.3% YoY
- Net income
- $10.2B
- Operating margin
- 20.8%
- Market position
- major
- Value-chain segment
- Networking & Systems
- Key products
- Nexus data-center switches, Catalyst LAN switches, Silicon One networking ASIC, Webex collaboration platform, Cisco Secure firewall/security
About Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, headquartered in United States, operates in the Networking & Systems segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain and is positioned as a market major there. Its key products include Nexus data-center switches, Catalyst LAN switches, Silicon One networking ASIC, Webex collaboration platform, Cisco Secure firewall/security. wafergraph maps 22 tracked suppliers and 1 tracked customer for Cisco Systems across the value chain. It has a supply-chain criticality score of 7/100, with 17 companies downstream of it.
Role in the chain
Cisco Systems is a market major in AI & Data Center (Networking & Systems), headquartered in United States. Networking giant supplying AI data-center switching and silicon.
Diligence questions
- The dataset records 22 tracked suppliers for Cisco Systems. Which of those edges are researched (named in a filing or primary source) versus segment-inferred, and what happens if one of them stops shipping?
- 4 of Cisco Systems's tracked suppliers are a monopoly or leader (including Accton Technology Corporation, Broadcom, Hamamatsu Photonics, InnoLight Technology). Which of those are actually single-source for the process step you care about?
- The dataset names 1 tracked customer for Cisco Systems. How concentrated is demand among those names, and which of them have a documented second source in this graph?
- Cisco Systems is headquartered in United States. What jurisdiction, export-control or logistics risk sits at that HQ, versus at the fabs or plants the filings actually name?
- Cisco Systems trades as NASDAQ:CSCO. What does the latest reported period say about capacity and backlog versus the graph position above?
- Before treating any edge as a verified relationship, check the provenance labels on the company page and the method note at /methodology.
Key products
- Nexus data-center switches
- Catalyst LAN switches
- Silicon One networking ASIC
- Webex collaboration platform
- Cisco Secure firewall/security
Suppliers
- Lumentum Holdings · relationship
- Coherent · relationship
- Ayar Labs · relationship
- InnoLight Technology · relationship
- Eoptolink Technology · relationship
- Accelink Technologies · relationship
- Fabrinet · relationship
- Applied Optoelectronics · relationship
- nLight · relationship
- Hamamatsu Photonics · relationship
- Lightmatter · relationship
- Celestial AI · relationship
- POET Technologies · relationship
- Broadcom · relationship
- Marvell Technology · relationship
- Aeva Technologies · relationship
- Ciena · relationship
- Source Photonics · relationship
- Sumitomo Electric Industries · relationship
- Furukawa Electric · relationship
- Nokia · relationship
- Accton Technology Corporation · relationship
Customers
More AI & Data Center companies
Compare with
Dell Technologies · Arista Networks · Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Nokia · Ciena · Celestica
Sources
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Cite as: wafergraph, “Cisco Systems — supply chain, financials & market position”, https://wafergraph.com/company/cisco (data as of 2026-09-05).
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