CISCO SYSTEMS INC. IS THE WORLDWIDE LEADER in networking for the Internet. The company was founded in 1984 by two computer scientists from Stanford University seeking an easier way to connect different types of computer systems.

Cisco Systems shipped its first product in 1986 and is now a multi-national corporation, with over 35,000 employees in more than 115 countries. Today, Cisco solutions are the networking foundations for service providers, small to medium business and enterprise customers which includes corporations, government agencies, utilities and educational institutions.

Cisco's networking solutions connect people, computing devices and computer networks, allowing people to access or transfer information without regard to differences in time, place or type of computer system.

A company of innovators, we believe that creating simplicity through engineering is the highest form of innovation. From our first release, the ground-breaking M40 router, to today’s end-to-end advancements in network security, automation, performance, and scale, our drive to move beyond the constraints of complexity has expanded the reach of networks everywhere. We’ve enabled our customers to connect to everything and empower everyone in ways that have literally changed the world. In the profusion of new technologies such as IoT, big data, and multicloud, complexity is the new hard problem. And complexity is on the wrong side of progress. With the strength of our resolve, we’ll champion the evolution of the cloud and once again change the world.

MikroTik is a Latvian company which was founded in 1996 to develop routers and wireless ISP systems. MikroTik now provides hardware and software for Internet connectivity in most of the countries around the world. Our experience in using industry standard PC hardware and complete routing systems allowed us in 1997 to create the RouterOS software system that provides extensive stability, controls, and flexibility for all kinds of data interfaces and routing. In 2002 we decided to make our own hardware, and the RouterBOARD brand was born. We have resellers in most parts of the world, and customers in probably every country on the planet. Our company is located in Riga, the capital city of Latvia and has more than 280 employees.

Shanghai Baud Data Communication Co.,Ltd (BDCOM), founded in 1994, is now one of China’s leading suppliers ofnetworking and communication solutions. BDCOM invented all by itself the firstX.25 NIC and the first commercialized router in China. Since then BDCOM hasbeen in the vanguard of networking and communication technologies. Up to now,BDCOM's switches, EPON products, routers and network security devices have beenwidely applied in many areas like the banking system, education system,government and even the defense system in China, which stimulate their leapfrogdevelopment in an era of information technology.

What is FreeBSD? FreeBSD is an operating system for a variety of platforms which focuses on features, speed, and stability. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large community. Powerful Internet solutions: FreeBSD makes an ideal Internet or Intranet server. It provides robust network services under the heaviest loads and uses memory efficiently to maintain good response times for thousands of simultaneous user processes.

Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.

Peering is the direct interconnection between Google's network and another network to support the exchange of traffic. Networks peer to gain some combination of economic, performance and traffic control benefits.