Cisco vs West

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, and it supports, manages and operates business systems for various and major third parties. Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 by Leonard Bosack, who was in charge of the Stanford University computer science (CS) department's computers, and Sandy Lerner, who managed the Graduate School of Business' computers.

West Corporation is a publicly traded telecommunications services provider based in Omaha, Nebraska. West Corporation operates under two segments: Communications Services and Unified Communications to provide customer contact services, conferencing services, event services and emergency call operations. Gary and Mary West co-founded WATS Marketing of America in 1978. During the first decade, West Teleservices hired thousands of employees and reached over $100 million in net proceeds.