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Cisco Based on 366 reviews.	Cray
Overview
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, and it supports, manages and operates business systems for various and major third parties. Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack, who was in charge of the Stanford University computer science department's computers, and Sandy Lerner, who managed the Graduate School of Business' computers.	Information Not Available
Sample Customers
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers: Advanced Medical Transport, Aegean Motorway, Anilana Hotels and Resorts, Artoni Transporti, BH Telecom, Bowling Green State University, City of Mississauga, Dualtec Cloud Builders, Electricity Authority of Cyprus, Grupo Industrial Saltillo (GIS), Kind en Gezin, Kuwait Petroleum Italia, Nationwide, Quest, Talbots, University of St. Gallen	Cray CS-Storm: Intel, NVIDIA, Abokia Inc., Adaptive Computing, Allinea Software, ANSYS Inc., CEI, Cloudera, DataDirect Networks, Exa Corporation, Expert System, Intelligent Light, MSC Software, Oracle, Platform Computing, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., Seagate
Popular Solutions
Cisco ASA 75 reviews Cisco Wireless 20 reviews Cisco Catalyst Switches 17 reviews
Top Comparisons
Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers vs. Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers Compared 43% of the time.	HPE Apollo vs. Cray CS-Storm Compared 73% of the time.
Top Industries
Comms Service Provider 17% Financial Services Firm 14% Manufacturing Company 7% University 5%	No Data Available

Quotes From Member Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

Dmitriy Ronkin
Networking Specialist at Transportation
What is most valuable?: Versatility and streamlined IOS Availability of expertise on the market (resources) •...
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Rob Duin
Solution Sales Specialist at a tech services company
What is our primary use case?: Endpoint security prevents malware and exploit kits coming into your mobile devices,...
Read full review of Cisco AMP for Endpoints »
Ryan Partington
Systems Administrator at Universal Audio
What is our primary use case?: It's our firewall for our AWS VPC on the internal side that connects our VPC to...
Read full review of Cisco ASAv »
Bob Whitcombe
Technical Sales Architect at a tech services company
What is most valuable?: Previously, the physical trappings of Cisco UCS, Intel chip-sets and UCS Manager were the...
Read full review of Cisco UCS B-Series »
SrSecAnalyst918
Sr. Security Analyst
What is most valuable?: Centralized policy creation for URL, application, IPS, etc. It simplifies matters more than...
Read full review of Cisco Sourcefire Firewalls »

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Bruce(Wei) Wang
IT Manager at a K-12 educational company or school
Customer Service: Excellent. Technical Support: Middle.
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Anonymous User
Principal at a tech company
The technical support team is quite good and responsive too.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company
I haven't needed to deal with technical support yet.
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William Kosinetz
CIO
Customer Service: Very GoodTechnical Support: Very Good
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Fabio Vilches
System Engineer
We had to use technical support once. They were great.
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Deanna Acre
Information Systems Manager at a manufacturing company
I have not used technical support.
Read full review of Cisco ASA »
Olawale Michael N.
Infrastructure Connectivity Engineer at Reputable Service Company
Customer Service: GoodTechnical Support: Good
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Paolo Della Mea
Network Build Leader at a manufacturing company
Customer Service: A 10 out of 10. Technical Support: A 10 out of 10.
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WiFiSuperman
Senior Network Engineer/Mobility Specialist at CCSI - Contemporary Computer Services, Inc.
Customer Service: In my experience, Cisco customer service is 8/10. Technical Support: In my experience, Cisco...
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Alberto E. Luna Rodriguez
Senior Communications Analyst at a energy/utilities company
Technical support is the best I have worked with.
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Aaron Solis
ESS Security
Excellent.
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Alin Prodea
Network Security Administrator at a tech company
Customer Service: 10/10. Technical Support: 9/10.
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Jeff Khan
Managing Partner, Sr. Solutions Architect, Speaker, Courseware Developer, Technical Trainer at a tech services company
Tech support is California based today. Good in most cases, but they have no power in true design change requests....
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AhmadManzoor
Solutions Architect at a tech services company
10 out of 10.
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Munich Gupta
Managing Partner at Wipro Technologies
Its technical support is the main reason why we selected the product.
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Alberto E. Luna Rodriguez
Senior Communications Analyst at a energy/utilities company
Customer Service: Cisco offers great customer service. Technical Support: The best I have worked with.
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Vasilis Karkampounas
Network and Infrastructure Operations Manager at a individual & family service
Ι would say the technical support is average. Nothing special.
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Anonymous User
Network Engineer
Customer Service: 10 out of 10 Technical Support: 10 out of 10
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Afzal Yousufi
Senior Technical Consultant
Very good.
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SolutionMgr902
Solution Manager - Pre Sales - West Europe at a tech services company
I would give technical support a rating of 9/10.
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Bill Guilford
Senior Information Security Engineer at a transportation company
I have known these guys for a long time. They are completely familiar with their product.
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Anonymous User
User at a financial services firm
I would evaluate the tech support as "fair". They have multi-tiered support and especially the level-one and two...
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Anonymous User
Network Administrator & Information at a media company
Customer Service: Good, 9 out of 10 Technical Support: Good, 9 out of 10
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Mohamed Shehada
Senior Network & Data Communication Engineer at a tech services company
Nine out of 10.
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Anonymous User
Senior Manager of Network at a tech services company
Customer Service: It was good. Technical Support: It was good.
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Anonymous User
System/Network administrator at a software R&D company
Customer Service: It's high. Technical Support: It's high.
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Anonymous User
Director of Technical Services at a tech services company
Customer Service: It's great. Technical Support: It's great.
Read full review of Cisco Catalyst Switches »
Anonymous User
Security System Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor
Customer Service: Rather good, I've only needed to contact them on really rare occasions.Technical Support: There was...
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Anonymous User
IT Director
The technical support was okay. The product was fairly new at the Amazon store at that point in time, so the first...
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Anonymous User
Cisco Systems Engineer at a tech services company
Customer Service: 8/10. Technical Support: 6/10 - I mean you need luck when you open a case with Cisco to have...
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