Bill Fredenburg, a hardware engineer who joined Cisco last April, shrugged at how easy it was to win a big pay increase.

He joined Cisco in 1988 as its second chief executive officer and chairman of the board.

Both Gentil and Malekzadeh joined Cisco in the Security Technology Group.

He joined Cisco in April 2012.

He then left Wang in 1991 and joined Cisco.

Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Operations.

Prior to joining Cisco in 1995, he worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

Bates joined Cisco in 1996.

In 1994, Wolff left NSF and joined Cisco where he helped with projects such as Internet2 and the Abilene Network.

Ullal joined Cisco and began work on the Cisco Catalyst switching business, which grew from its beginning, in 1993, to a $5 billion business in 2000.