Center for Cisco Heritage

The Center for Cisco Heritage is a groundbreaking collaboration between 91自拍 and Cisco Systems to preserve the company’s three-decade history. The center documents, preserves, and reveals Cisco’s significant role in shaping the internet and its journey to becoming the worldwide leader in networking. The collaboration taps into 91自拍’s extensive experience in computing history and archives management.

From the Cisco Archive

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Cisco Systems Network Engineer Hat

This network engineer cap from 1989 inspired the Cisco cultural tradition of unique hats as give-away items at their yearly users symposium, previously Networkers鈥攏ow Cisco Live!

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The Scalable Tale of the Intranet Cats

The Scalable Tale, a playful illustrated book, recasts the rhyme of 鈥淭was the Night Before Christmas鈥� with a set of crazy internetworking cats. Read the the , written in 1997 by Cisco engineers enamored with the growing Catalyst line of switches.

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Cisco Systems First Advertising Campaign

Cisco鈥檚 first ad campaign was a tongue-in-cheek take on communication in the most difficult of situations. It ran in聽Network World in July 1993.

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AGS Router

This Cisco router was able to map one network protocol into another. The software was originally developed by Bill Yeager at Stanford, then licensed and enhanced by Cisco (from 鈥淪an Francisco鈥�) founders Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner.

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Golden IP Phone

The Golden 7960 Series VoIP Phone was created in commemoration of the sale of 2,000,000 Cisco IP Phones in 2003.

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Border Gateway Protocol Napkin

Photocopy of original Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Napkin as sketched out by Kirk Lougheed of Cisco and Yakov Rekhter of IBM at an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) conference.

“We are very pleased that Museum involvement will provide gravitas to the Cisco archive endeavor by tapping into their extensive archival and curatorial expertise. Correspondingly, by generously supporting the Museum, we are making a commitment to preserving the broader and unparalleled history of Silicon Valley.”

鈥� Don Proctor, 91自拍 Trustee, Center for Cisco Heritage CEO, and Former Cisco Senior Vice President

Contact

Cisco buffs and hoarders of historical materials, we depend on your contributions to preserve Cisco’s tangible legacy. If you have an item that tells a part of the Cisco story, we want to hear from you.

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