On the Record · Cisco
Cisco competitors, on the record
The companies Cisco names as competitors in its annual reports, 2024 to 2026, and the companies that name Cisco, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Cisco names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services LLC | 2026 |
| Arista Networks, Inc. | 2026 |
| Broadcom Inc. | 2026 |
| Ciena Corporation | 2026 |
| CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. | 2026 |
| Datadog Inc. | 2026 |
| Dell Technologies Inc. | 2026 |
| Dynatrace Inc. | 2026 |
| Fortinet, Inc. | 2026 |
| Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company | 2026 |
| Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 2026 |
| Microsoft Corporation | 2026 |
| Nokia Corporation | 2026 |
| Nvidia Corporation | 2026 |
| Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 2026 |
| RingCentral, Inc. | 2026 |
| Zoom Video Communications, Inc. | 2026 |
| Zscaler, Inc. | 2026 |
In its own words
Amazon Web Services LLC, Arista Networks, Inc., Broadcom Inc., Ciena Corporation, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc., Datadog Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., Dynatrace Inc., Fortinet, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Microsoft Corporation, Nokia Corporation, Nvidia Corporation, Palo Alto Networks, Inc., RingCentral, Inc., Zoom Video Communications, Inc., Zscaler, Inc.
Word for word“Our competitors (in each case relative to only some of our products or services) include: Amazon Web Services LLC; Arista Networks, Inc.; Broadcom Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Datadog Inc.; Dell Technologies Inc.; Dynatrace Inc.; Fortinet, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nvidia Corporation; Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; RingCentral, Inc.; Zoom Video Communications, Inc.; and Zscaler, Inc.; among others.” 10-K for 2026
Who names Cisco
Companies whose own annual reports name Cisco as a competitor.
Word for word“Main competitors of our Optical Networking solutions portfolio are Ciena, Cisco, Ekinops, Nokia, Smartoptics and Ribbon Communications.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“The data center and campus networking markets have historically been dominated by Cisco, with competition also coming from other large network equipment and system vendors, including Dell/EMC, Extreme Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Juniper Networks, Nvidia, and white box networking vendors that utilize open-source operating systems.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our multi-screen content management and protection products compete with many vendors offering on-demand video and digital advertising insertion hardware and software, including Adobe, Cisco, Ericsson, Irdeto, SeaChange, TiVo, Verimatrix, and others.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“UCC premise and cloud: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Atos Unify, Cisco, 8x8, GoTo, Huawei, Microsoft, Mitel, NEC, RingCentral and Zoom.” 10-K for 2022
Brocade Communications Systems
Word for word“Despite Brocade’s strong market position, the Company faces significant competition in the market for SAN products and services from Cisco.” 10-K for 2016
Word for word“Our competitors include Nokia, Huawei, Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and ZTE.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“App Delivery and Security Our hardware products compete in traditional data-center-deployed application environments against other established competitors, including F5 Networks, Radware, A10 Networks and Cisco.” 10-K for 2021
Word for word“Our principal competitors include Cisco (which includes AppDynamics and Splunk), Datadog, Elastic, Grafana, and New Relic.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“F5 competes with traditional edge players including Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly, as well as networking vendors including Broadcom and Cisco, and pure-play vendors like Aviatrix, and public cloud providers.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“net2phone competes with large legacy vendors that offer on-premises contact center systems, such as Avaya and Cisco.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“In the metro market, we face the same competitors as in long-haul, in addition to Cisco, ADTRAN, Ribbon Communications, and Fujitsu, among others.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“The leading vendors of Ethernet adapters include Intel Corporation (“Intel”), Broadcom, Cisco, Marvell, Chelsio, and SolarFlare (a Xilinx company).” 10-K for 2019
Word for word“In the CCaaS market, which is a part of the broader Contact Center Infrastructure market that is still mainly held by traditional on-premises players, we compete against Amazon Connect, Avaya, Cisco, Five9, Genesys, and TalkDesk, as well as other niche vendors.” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“For example, Cisco, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, have developed or may develop and offer, their own data integration solutions and some of these partners are currently, and others may in the future become, competitors.” 10-K for 2022
Word for word“We believe our principal competitors include: • global technology vendors, such as Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo; and • ODMs, such as Foxconn, Quanta Computer, and Wiwynn Corporation.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“In the enterprise WLAN and switching markets, we primarily compete with Cisco, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Aruba Networks and Juniper Networks), and Ruckus (Belden).” 10-K for 2026
Read from Cisco’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-09-02. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.