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San Jose, CA-based Cisco Systems has announced the Resignation of John McCool as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success. The concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception. Husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices located in different buildings but were unable to due to technological shortcomings. A technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols; and as a result of solving their challenge - the multi-protocol router was born. Since then Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors and ecosystem partners and has become the worldwide leader in networking - transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate.
About the Person
John McCool is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Global Enterprise Segment at Cisco. In this role, McCool is responsible for the Cisco Borderless Network Architecture and the Global Enterprise Technology Office. Cisco Borderless Networks, which accounts for one-third of Cisco's revenues, is a technical network architecture for enterprise and public sector organizations that integrates Cisco products and solutions spanning routing, switching, mobility, security, and network services. He also leads the Global Enterprise Technology Office, which oversees the Enterprise Whole Offer Engineering group, Smart Business Architecture group, and the Office of CTO for Global Enterprise.
Earlier, he led Cisco's switching business as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services Group where he was responsible for the company's comprehensive family of enterprise Ethernet switching products, application networking, WAN optimization, storage networking, and system solutions. During this time, he led the complete refresh of the Cisco Catalyst switch product family, launched the highly successful Cisco Nexus 7000 Series data center switch, and introduced NX-OS, its modular data center operating system optimized for enterprise customers. Prior to that McCool held other switching leadership positions in which he grew the Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 6500 series businesses to multi-billion-dollar entities.
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