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Cisco Announces Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes

SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 06/10/15 — Cisco (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, including to return capital to shareholders pursuant to its previously-announced capital allocation strategy through the repurchase of shares of its common stock and the payment of cash dividends.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 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:

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions
1155 Long Island Avenue
Edgewood, NY 11717
Telephone: 1-800-831-9146
Email:

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Attn: Prospectus Department
One Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Telephone: 1-800-221-1037
Email:

Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Attn: Prospectus Department
200 West Street
New York, NY 10282
Telephone: (212) 902-1171
Facsimile: (212) 902-9316
Email:

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
Attn: Prospectus Department
180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10014
Email:

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
Attn: WFS Customer Service
608 2nd Avenue
South Minneapolis, MN 55402
Telephone: 1-800-645-3751
Email:

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

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
Attn: Prospectus Department
222 Broadway
New York, NY 10038
Telephone: 1-800-294-1322
Email:

Robyn Jenkins-Blum
Cisco
+1 (408) 853-9848

Andrea Duffy
Cisco
+1 (212) 714-4152

Marilyn Mora
Cisco
+1 (408) 527-7452

Suresh Bhaskaran
Cisco
+1 (408) 425-3927