Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. The company is present in Italy since 1994 and is led by Stefano Venturi, Managing Director of Cisco Italy and Vice President of Cisco EMEA. Under is leadership the Italian sub has grown up from 12 to nearly 700 people in five offices: Vimercate (Milan) the Italian headquarter, Roma, Torino, Padova and Monza, where is located the Cisco Photonic R&D laboratory. Cisco Italy is active in technology development inside our Country not only supporting the main businesses (carriers, service providers, small, medium businesses) to create their networked infrastructures, but also investing in training on skilled professionals able to answer to the new needs of Internet diffusion. With this objective, Cisco Italy had launched the Networking Academy, an initiative that offers free technical/practical school programmes - also development in other Country of the world - which enable students to learn and design, create and maintain networks for national and global organisations. In Italy there are more than 300Academy.

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