Cisco was founded in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University in the middle of the technological revolution that was happening in the San Francisco area. The founders created the first router to solve a problem where a husband and wife, who had accounts on different servers in separate buildings of Stanford University, were unable to send electronic mail to each other. The solution to this problem became the first computer router. This …showed first 75 words of 851 total…

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