Cisco

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Date:

Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/cisco

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Cisco built?1984
2. What is the location?Corporate headquarters in San Jose, California, USA
3. What is the founders?Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner
4. What is Cisco and why is it important?Cisco builds the invisible roads of the internet, helping different computer networks talk to each other and share data.
5. Who started Cisco and when?Two computer scientists, Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, started Cisco in December 1984 at Stanford University.

Conglomerate Corporation: A large company composed of multiple, often unrelated, businesses.
Digital Communications Technology: Technology used for transmitting information electronically.
Multiprotocol Router System: A device that connects different networks and supports various communication protocols.
Dot-com Bubble: A period of rapid growth and speculation in internet-based companies in the late 1990s.