Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Cisco the company that brought us the router, and has been the provider of the backbone of the Internet. It had a story about its founding it likes to tell, but the truth and the story are not one and the same.

This video is sponsored by PCBWay (https://www.pcbway.com)
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00:00 - Intro
00:24 - A word from our sponsors
00:53 - The story them told us
01:50 - The real story
06:23 - Cisco is a live
11:01 - Cisco goes public
12:18 - Cisco buys a lot of companies
14:28 - VoIP and TDM
18:22 - The dial-up market
20:56 - The ISP market & BGP
24:56 - Cisco broke the Internet (mono cultures are bad)
29:36 - IOS
36:28 - CCNA
37:31 - The phones
39:56 - Where are Cisco now, and why do they have all our money ?
40:43 - Thanks