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Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) and (c)
File Number 333-33663
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT DATED OCTOBER 29, 1997
to
Prospectus Dated August 14, 1997
1,801,182 SHARES
CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.
COMMON STOCK
This Prospectus Supplement supplements the Prospectus dated August 14,
1997 (the "Prospectus") of Cisco Systems, Inc. (the "Company") relating to the
public offering, which is not being underwritten, and sale by certain
shareholders of the Company or by pledgees, donees, transferees or other
successors in interest that receive such shares as a gift, partnership
distribution or other non-sale related transfer (the "Selling Shareholders") of
1,801,182 shares of Common Stock, no par value, of the Company (the "Common
Stock") who received such shares in connection with the acquisition by statutory
merger of Ardent Communications Corporation ("Ardent"), by and through a merger
of Ardent with and into the Company. This Prospectus Supplement should be read
in conjunction with the Prospectus, and this Prospectus Supplement is qualified
by reference to the Prospectus except to the extent that the information herein
contained supersedes the information contained in the Prospectus. Capitalized
terms used in this Prospectus Summary and not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings specified in the Prospectus.
SELLING SHAREHOLDERS
Footnotes (2), (3) and (4) below (the "Footnotes") set forth
shareholders of the Company who were not specifically identified in the
Prospectus as Selling Shareholders. The shareholders identified in the Footnotes
below may receive shares of Common Stock through partnership distributions. The
table of Selling Shareholders in the Prospectus is hereby amended to include the
shareholders identified in the Footnotes as Selling Shareholders:
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Number of
Shares
Number of Shares Percent of Registered for
Beneficially Outstanding Sale
Name of Selling Shareholder Owned Shares Hereby(1)
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Sequoia Capital VII(2) 344,107 * 344,107
Sequoia Technology Partners VII(3) 16,740 * 16,740
Sequoia 1995(4) 11,160 * 11,160
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* less than one percent
(2) Subsequent to the date of this Prospectus Supplement, the shares held by
Sequoia Capital VII may be distributed to Alcoa Master Trust; Trustees
of Amherst College; BP America Retirement Trust; Caviapen Trustees
Limited; Computrol Limited (BVI); Dartmouth College; The Trustees of
Davidson College; Hancock Venture Partners, Inc.; Pitt & Company;
Bankers Trust Company, as Master Trustee of the Hughes Retirement Plans
Trust; James Irvine Foundation; Japan Associated Finance Co., Ltd.; John
Deere Pension
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Trust; Knightsbridge Associated Investors IX Limited Partnership (KAI
IX); Leeway & Co.; M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust; M.C. Partners II,
C.V.; McKesson Corporation; Nassau Capital L.L.C.; Norwich University;
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Stanford Management Company; The Bush
Foundation; The Ford Foundation; The Regents of the University of
California; The University of Chicago; The Vanderbilt University; The
Regents of the University of Michigan; The Regents of the University of
Minnesota; University of Notre Dame du Lac; University of Southern
California.
(3) Subsequent to the date of this Prospectus Supplement, the shares held by
Sequoia Technology Partners VII may be distributed to Robert K.
Anderson; Alexandre Balkanski; Richard C. Barker, Trustee for the Barker
Living Trust, dated 9/5/90; Harris Barton; Richard Beleson; Eric
Benhamou; Charles M. Boesenberg; Lisa S. Boyajian; Capital Management
Services; John T. Chambers; Robert Clarkson; Wilfred J. Corrigan
Trustee, Corrigan Family Trust U/A 6/12/84; James Diller; DMW Investors
95 LLC; Dixon and Carol Doll Family Trust; James Dorrian; Brian R. Dunn
and Melinda Ann Dunn or their successor(s) as Trustees Under the Brian
R. Dunn and Melinda Ann Dunn Trust Agreement Dated September 10, 1997;
J. Michael Egan; Eureka Investments, L.P.; Thomas W. Ford Fund; FSD 1995
Investment Partners; GC&H Investments; Charlie Giancarlo; Paul L.
Gomory, Jr. Trust UDT dated 9/20/95; Joshua L. Green; Jerry and Barbara
Grossman; Brian L. Halla and Carolyn A. Halla, Trustees of the Halla
Family Revocable Trust, dated January 19, 1995; Jen-Hsun Huang; Ironwood
Capital L.L.C.; Craig Johnson; Brent Jones; Ed Kozel; Mark Kvamme;
Pierre R. Lamond and Christine E. Lamond, P.R. Lamond and C.E. Lamond
Trust dated 11/22/85; Leonard Lehmann; Ed Leonard; Douglas M. Leone;
Richard A. Lerner; Jack Lewis; Lester John Lloyd and/or Lynne Dewar
Lloyd, Trustees, (The) Lloyd Trust, UAD 10/5/88; Keith R. Lobo; James E.
Long; John Mayes; Mario Mazzola; J. Casey McGlynn; Donald K. McKinney;
J. Thomas McMurray; Jeffrey A. Miller and Karen L. Miller as Co-Trustees
of the Miller Living Trust dated 7/7/85; Avram Miller, Trustee of the
Avram Miller Trust UDT dated 11/22/95; David C. Moffenbeier; Michael
Moritz & Harriet Heyman Trustees, Maximus Trust dtd 3/19/96; William J.
O'Meara; J.W. Pickard Trustee, The Pickard Family Trust; Pierce & Crow
c/o Richard Pierce; Philippe J. Pouletty; Greg Reyes Jr.; Reyes
Partnership IV; Thurman J. Rodgers; Mario M. Rosati; Nathaniel de
Rothschild Trustee, (The) Hollis Trust, U/A DTD 8/21/89; Peter Rule;
Barbara Russell; Gordon Russell; Philip M. Sawyer; Richard A. Schatz,
M.D.; R. Michael Shanahan Trustee, The Shanahan Trust, dtd 3/22/91;
Roger J. Sippl; Larry Solomon; Peter Solvik; Larry Sonsini; W.N.
Starling Jr. and Dana Gregory Starlin, Trustees of the Starling Family
Trust UDT dtd 8/12/90; Thomas F. Stephenson Trustee, Thomas F.
Stephenson Family Trust UDT 7/6/94; Mark A. Stevens; Gary H. Stroy;
Ronald R. Taylor; Timark L.P.; University of Michigan Business School
Growth Fund; Donald T. Valentine Trustee, Donald T. Valentine Family
Trust UA 4/29/67; Thomas A. Vardell; VLG Investments 1996; Romesh
Wadhwani; Jerry Weissman; W. Michael West; WS Investment Company; Cyril
J. Yansouni Trustee, Yansouni Family Trust, dated 5/12/90; Steve Young.
(4) Subsequent to the date of this Prospectus Supplement, the shares held by
Sequoia 1995 may be distributed to Peter Dickson Armitage; William W.
Bagnard; David C. Barclay; Richard C. Barker, Trustee; Julius T.
Berkemeier; Alan N. Berro; Fred R. Betts; Joseph T. Blair; Daniel C.
Brown, Trustee; James Brown; Jeffrey P. Brown; Elizabeth A. Burns; Brian
C. Casey; Victor C. Cassato; Christopher Cassin; Randy Cepuch; Ruth M.
Collier; Roberta A. Conroy; Mary C. Cremin; Douglas A. Critchell; Gina
Despres; G. Michael Dill; Peter J. Doran; Timothy P. Dunn; James K.
Dunton; Michael R. Ericksen; Paul H. Fieberg, Trustee; Doreen L. Gee;
Anne Gleichenhaus; Abner D. Goldstine, Trustee; David E. Harper; J. Dale
Harvey, II; Joseph R. Higdon; William H. Hurt Trust; Robert Bryan
Jacobsky; Robert L. Johansen; Michael J. Johnston; Eric C. Jonsson,
Trustee; Solomon M. Kamm, Trustee; Steven N. Kearsley; Victor D. Kohn;
Victor J. Kriss; Karin L. Larson; John F. Lawrence; Arthur Levine; Anne
M. Llewellyn; Kayrene Lunday; Steven Markel; D. James Martin, Trustee;
John C. Massar; Lee McClennahan; Scott F. McIntyre; Terry McNabb; James
R. Mulally; David Murray; Stephen S. Nelson; William C. Newton, Trustee;
Shelby Notkin, Trustee; Mimi O'Hern; Donald O'Neal; Robert Pennington;
Dina Perry; John H. Phelan, Jr.; Fredric Phillips; John Ressner; Marsha
G. Robertson; Merlin E. Robertson; Robert E.G. Ronus; George S. Ross;
Julie D. Roth; James F. Rothenberg, Trustee; Dean B. Rydquist; Richard
Samson; Theodore R. Samuels; Lionel Sauvage; Richard T. Schotte; John H.
Seiter; Clayton Sheedy; David W. Short; N. Parker Simes; William P.
Simon, Jr.; John H. Smet; Mark S. Smith; Rudolf M. Staehelin; Eugene P.
Stein; Max Stites; Francis N. Strazzeri; Philip
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A. Swan; Brad A. Todd; George F. Truesdail; Hoyt J. Turner; Douglas M.
Urban; Edith H. VanHuss; Shaw B. Wagener; Catherine M. Ward; Edus H.
Warren, Jr.; Gregory J. Weimer; Gregory Wendt; N. Dexter Williams, Jr.;
Lynda Willner; Marshall D. Wingo; Robert L. Winston, Trustee.
