Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Operations.

He assumed the role of President and CEO in 1995. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent eight years at Wang Laboratories (1982-1990) and six years with IBM (1976-1982). He holds a bachelor of science / bachelor of arts, degree in business and a law degree from West Virginia University and a master of business administration degree in finance and management from Indiana University.

Products and customers Their main activity is designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. The customers are corporate market, small business and home users.

Results and Future plans They annual turnover is US$ 91.759 billion with profits of $11.5 billion the company is successful because for many reasons. Cisco has consistently been on the annual list as one of the top 200 companies to work for. They have excellent products. They have excellent support (relative to their competitors). Despite their large size, their work environment stays as if they were a small company. They are successful because they tend to dominate many of the sectors in which they compete, not just routing and switching, but now also optical, storage, voice, wireless, and lately more application related networking like caching and load balancing.