Cisco Systems

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Cisco Systems Inc. is a publicly traded American technology company. The company engages in networking, collaboration, security and observability solutions, including artificial intelligence (AI) native networking and cybersecurity solutions. Cisco Systems provides servers, computing, cybersecurity tools, and communication systems and equipment to the Israeli military and the Israel Police. The company has also provided communications and surveillance technology to settlements in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan. In July 2025, the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) published a tender for the purchase of Cisco servers. In March 2025, the IMOD issued a tender for the purchase of Cisco headsets with a PTT button. In October 2023, Cisco Systems Israel supported the development of the digital platform “Israel Rises” of the Home Front Command, a branch of the Israeli military. Also in October 2023, amid the military invasion of Gaza, the company gave grants to its employees who were on reserve duty in the Israeli Military. In May 2022, it was reported that Cisco engineers together with Israeli soldiers of the ICT Unit developed application for use by civil society organizations which work with the military. In March 2020, Cisco Systems began laying tens of Unified Communication systems for the Israeli military, expected to reach hundreds of systems. The unified network centralizes the transfer of video, voice, and data between different Israeli military units. Cisco’s Unified Communication system serves to accelerate the Israeli military’s response timeframe. Cisco Systems’ computing and communication systems, cyber security and load balancing systems were integrated into the Israeli military’s biggest ICT underground data center in the Naqab called David’s Citadel, completed in 2020. The Data Center cost reached NIS 1.6 billion. In 2017, Cisco Systems won the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s tender to supply the Israeli military with servers for a period of three years, with an option for an additional two years, for a total amount of NIS 1 billion. The servers were integrated by the Israeli company Bynet Data Communications. The tender was funded by US foreign aid provided by the United States to Israel. Cisco replaced HP, which had been the previous server supplier for the IMOD. According to the Cisco’s VP of technology, “The connection between the technology units in the Israeli military and the high-tech companies in Israel is a significant anchor in the accuracy and advanced development of technologies that serve the security of the state and the bodies responsible for it... The sight of officers in uniforms sitting next to our engineers and developing technological solutions together is very natural to us, but still exciting.” In February 2019, the Ministry for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee allocated NIS 90 million for the 'Klika' project, in cooperation with Cisco Systems, for the launch of 45 technological hubs, all of which will be equipped with Cisco communication technology. By September 2023, seven of the 36 hubs that have been opened are located on occupied territory. Five hubs are located in the occupied West Bank, in the settlements of Modi’in Illit, Beitar Illit, Kiryat Arba, Itamar, and Sha’ar Binyamin Industrial Zone. Two additional hubs are located in the occupied Syrian Golan – one at the Ha’Emir junction, between the settlement of Sha’al and Odem, and the second in the settlement of Katzrin. In 2017, Cisco and the Jerusalem Municipality signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation between the municipality and the company to make Jerusalem the first smart city in Israel. In the same year, Cisco installed communication equipment and CCTVs for the Jerusalem municipality as part of a pilot project for the development of Smart City technology in the west of the city. The Smart City project is part of Israel's surveillance apparatus in Jerusalem, which is aimed mainly at the Palestinian residents of the city. -- Listed on NASDAQ (CSCO), Cisco Systems is backed by leading sovereign wealth funds, most notably NBIM,, Temasek and GIC.