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Cisco: Cisco Announces Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes

^{Published on 2009-02-09 09:12:47, Last Modified on 2009-02-09 09:13:32 - Market Wire}
 

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - February 9, 2009) - Cisco (NASDAQ: [ CSCO ]), the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, senior notes under an automatic shelf registration statement on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Cisco intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes and to repay $500 million in aggregate principal amount of its floating rate notes due 2009.

Banc of America Securities LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC are acting as joint book-running managers.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. The offering of securities may be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus. Copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus can be obtained from:

 Banc of America Securities LLC Prospectus Department 100 West 33rd Street, New York, New York 10001 1-800-294-1322 Goldman, Sachs & Co. Prospectus Department 85 Broad St. New York, NY 10004 212-902-9316 (fax) J. P. Morgan Securities Inc. 270 Park Avenue, 8th Floor New York, NY 10017 Attn: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk 212-834-4533 Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Prospectus Department Brooklyn Army Terminal 140 58th Street, 8th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11220 1-877-858-5407 Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated Prospectus Department 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10014 1-866-718-1649 Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC Wachovia Customer Information Center 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd., NC0675 Charlotte, North Carolina 28262 Attn: Syndicate Operations 1-800-326-5897 

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