Company overview
- Sector
- Technology, Software & IT Services
- Sub-sector
- Information Technology & Services
- Mandate (derived)
- Technology & Engineering
- Parent headquarters
- San Jose, California, United States
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $56,700,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 78,386
- India headcount
- 8,000+
GCC locations
- Bengaluru
- Pune
- Chennai
- Gurugram
GCC notes
Major networking, cloud & cybersecurity product R&D hub
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .GIS
- .NET
- 24-7 Media
- 3D cart
- 3M 360 Encompass - Health Analytics Suite
- ABB Distributed Control Systems (DCS)
- AI
- AMP
- ANGEL LMS
- ANSYS
- AWS Analytics
- AWS Application Load Balancer
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS DeepComposer
- AWS Glue
Public leadership
Anil Nair
Vice President of Engineering
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Key roles
Network Software Engineers; Security Engineers; Cloud Architects; SRE / DevOps Engineers; Product Managers
Research overview
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, founded December 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner. Led by CEO Chuck Robbins, global leader in networking hardware, software, cybersecurity and telecommunications equipment. FY2025 revenue ~$56.7B, global headcount 78,386+.
- India launch
- Not disclosed
- Maturity
- Mature / Established Hub
India operation spans four major cities (Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Gurugram), carries a Technology & Engineering mandate, and reports 8,000+ India headcount with the Bengaluru site historically anchored by a $1B+ 'Globalization Centre East' investment (mid-2000s) - a long-tenured, large-scale, product-R&D-driven hub.
Timeline
- mid-2000s
Cisco established its 'Globalization Centre East' in Bangalore with a committed investment of about $1 billion, marking a major expansion of its India R&D and operations presence.
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.