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Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) and (c)
File Number 333-17839
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
to
Prospectus Dated December 19, 1996
1,088,784 SHARES
CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.
COMMON STOCK
This Prospectus Supplement supplements the Prospectus dated December
19, 1996 (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
1,088,784 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 Netsys Technologies, Inc. ("Netsys"), by and through a
merger of Netsys 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 (3), (4) and (5) 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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Bessemer Venture Partners III, L.P.(3) 98,712 * 98,712
Sequoia Technology Partners VI(2)(4) 4,891 * 4,891
Sequoia Capital VI(2)(5) 89,021 * 89,021
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* less than one percent
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(3) Subsequent to the date of this Prospectus Supplement, the shares held
by Bessemer Venture Partners III, L.P. ("Bessemer III") may be
distributed to the general partner of Bessemer III, Deer III & Co.
("Deer III") and Neill H. Brownstein; Robert H. Buescher; G. Felda
Hardymon; Christopher F. O. Gabrieli; William T. Burgin; David J.
Cowan; Michael I. Barach the general partners of Deer III and Bessemer
Ventures, Inc. the limited partner of Bessemer III.
(4) Subsequent to the date of this Prospectus Supplement, the shares held
by Sequoia Technology Partners VI may be distributed to the following
general and limited partners of such fund: Donald T. Valentine TR UA
APR 29 67; Gordon Russell; Pierre R. Lamond; Thomas F. Stephenson,
Trustee for the Thomas F. Stephenson Family Trust UDT 7/6/94; Michael
Moritz & Harriet Heyman, Trustees for The Maximus Trust DTD 3/19/96;
Douglas M. Leone; Mark A. Stevens; J. Thomas McMurray; Peter A. Bick;
Lisa S. Boyajian; Barbara Russell; Jim Allen; Richard C. Barker,
Trustee for the Barker Living Trust Dated 9/5/90; Andreas
Bechtolsheim; Richard Beleson; Thomas A. Bologna, Trustee for the
Thomas A. Bologna and Kathy M. Bologna, Trust dated February 11, 1991;
Laurence B. Boucher; Victor M.G. Chaltiel; Gari L. Cheever; Lisa A.
Conte; Wilfred J. Corrigan, Trustee for the Corrigan Family Trust U/A
6/12/84; Alexander V. d'Arbeloff; Nathaniel de Rothschild, Trusteee
for The Hollis Trust, U/A DTD 8/21/89; James V. Diller; F.T. Eger;
Abacus (C.I.) Limited - Account F634; Thomas W. Ford; John F.
Gifford; Howard E. Greene, Jr.; Warren S. Grundfest; Palo Alto Medical
Foundation; Capital Management Services, Inc.; Wells Fargo, DTC: 935,
Safekeeping Acct: #322-721217; L. William Krause and L. Gay Krause, as
Trustees for the Krause Trust dated June 21, 1994; Sandy Kurtzig,
Trustee for the Sandra L. Kurtzig Trust U/A 8/8/93; Edward M. Leonard;
Lester John Lloyd and/or Lynne Dewar Lloyd, Trustees for THE LLOYD
TRUST, UAD 10-05-88; James E. Long; Frank J. Marshall; Albert J.
Martinez; Mario Mazzola; J. Casey McGlynn; Regis McKenna; Donald K.
McKinney; John P. Morgridge, Trustee for The Morgridge Family Trust;
William J. O'Meara; Robert J. Paluck; Peter Preuss; Greg Reyes; David
H. Ring, Trustee for the David H. Ring Revocable Inter Vivos Trust;
Thurman J. Rodgers; Mario M. Rosati; Bertram I. Rowland; R. Michael
Shanahan, Trustee, for The Shanahan Trust, dtd 3/22/91; Prithipal
Singh; Roger J. Sippl; Roger V. Smith; Larry W. Sonsini; William N.
Starling, Jr. & Dana Gregory Starling, Trustees for the Starling
Family Trust, UDT 8/12/90; Gary H. Stroy; Robert H. Swanson, Trustee
for The Robert H. Swanson, Jr. & Sheila L. Swanson Trust U/T/A
5/27/76; Robert G. Sweifach; Robert K. Anderson; Jerry Weissman;
Phillip E. White.
(5) Subsequent to the date of this Prospectus Supplement, the shares held
by Sequoia Capital VI may be distributed to the following general and
limited partners of such fund: Thomas F. Stephenson, Trustee for the
Thomas F. Stephenson Family Trust, UDT 7/6/94; Michael Moritz &
Harriet Heyman, Trustees for The Maximus Trust dtd 3/19/96; Douglas M.
Leone; Mark A. Stevens; J. Thomas McMurray; Donald T. Valentine,
Trustee for the Donald T. Valentine Trust UA APR 29 67; Pierre R.
Lamond & Christine E. Lamond, Trustees for the P.R. Lamond & C.E.
Lamond Trust Dated 11/22/85; Pierre Lamond, Christine Lamond, David
Lamond Trustees, for the David Lamond Trust, dated 11/23/93; Lisa
Boyajian; Christian D. Valentine; Mark C. Valentine; Hilary A.
Valentine; Alcoa Master Trust; Trustees of Amherst College; Computrol,
Ltd.; Dartmouth College; Duke Management Company; Endowment Venture
Partners; PITT & COMPANY; James Irvine Foundation; John Deere Pension
Trust; Knightsbridge Integrated Holdings II; Leeway & Co.; M.C.
Partners II, C.V.; UNIT & CO; Norwich University; NRI Holding America,
Inc.; Occidental College; Oneonta Properties; Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute; Stanford Management Company; The Bush Foundation; The Ford
Foundation; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Regents of the
University of California; University of Michigan; The Vanderbilt
University; University of Minnesota; University of Notre Dame du Lac;
University of Southern California; Yale University.
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