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Cisco Announces Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes

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^{Published in Science and Technology on Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 6:15 GMT by Market Wire}  

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - March 9, 2011) - Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: [ CSCO ]) 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. Actual terms of the notes, including interest rate, principal amount and maturity will depend on market conditions at the time of pricing.

Cisco intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Securities 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 jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. 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:

BofA Merrill Lynch
100 West 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Attn: Syndicate Operations
[ dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com ]
1-800-294-1322

Goldman, Sachs & Co.
200 West Street
New York, NY 10282
Attention: Prospectus Department
[ prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com ]
1-866-471-2526

J.P. Morgan
383 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10179
Attn: High Grade Syndicate Desk - 3rd Floor
1-212-834-4533

Citi
140 58th Street, 8th Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11220
Attention: Prospectus Department, Brooklyn Army Terminal
1-877-858-5407

Morgan Stanley
180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10014
Attention: Prospectus Department, [ prospectus@morganstanley.com ]
1-866-718-1649

Wells Fargo Securities
1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd., NC0675 Charlotte, North Carolina 28262
Attn: Syndicate Operations
[ prospectus.specialrequests@wachovia.com ]
1-800-326-5897