Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. It provides infrastructure platforms, including networking technologies of switching, routing, wireless, and data center products that are designed to work together to deliver networking capabilities, and transport and/or store data. In addition, it provides security products, such as network security, cloud and email security, identity and access management, advanced threat protection, and unified threat management products, and cloud and system management products. Cisco Systems, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.