There really is a trout-like freshwater herring called the 'cisco,' there really is a company called Computer Interactive Sciences, and Pancho's sideburned sidekick in O. Henry's yarn really is called The Cisco Kid.

But none of these facts were factors in the naming of this networking king.

As their Golden Gate Bridge logo suggests, the name is deconstructed from the last five letters of that City by the Bay where the venture capital dough once flowed like water -- so B is correct.






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