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Cisco vs Huawei

Cisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data. Huawei provides information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. CISO Tribune files both under Firewalls and NGFW. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Cisco vs Huawei: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
CiscoCisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data.cisco.comHuaweiHuawei provides information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.huawei.com
What it sells
  • Cisco HypershieldA security architecture for data centers that segments workloads and closes exploit gaps at scale.
  • Cisco Secure AccessA secure access service edge (SASE) product that unifies networking and security policy for a distributed workforce.
  • Cisco Duo[1]An identity security product that gives visibility into an organization's identity ecosystem and enforces access policy.
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)A network access control product that uses data from across Cisco's stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints and grant trusted access.
  • Splunk Enterprise Security[1]A security information and event management product that detects and responds to threats using collected logs and events.
  • Cisco Talos[1]A threat intelligence and research organization that supplies threat data used across Cisco's security products.
  • RuralStar[5]A back-pack sized solution that brings voice, text, and broadband data services to remote, hard-to-reach communities.
  • SingleRAN[4]A mobile network architecture solution that processes 2G, 3G, and 4G within the same equipment rack.
Categories
Headquarters
San Jose, United States[3][13]Not stated on its pages
Founded
1984[4]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Public (NASDAQ: CSCO)[1][2][10][12][13]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
  • Marriott[5]
  • United States Golf Association[6]
  • Rosen Hotels & Resorts[7]
  • Elon University[8]
Not stated on its pages
Recent news
  • August 12, 2026Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion for the period ended July 25, 2026.[2]
  • May 13, 2026Cisco reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 revenue of $15.8 billion for the period ended April 25, 2026.[9]
  • May 4, 2026Cisco announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a non-human identity security company, and completed the acquisition on June 29, 2026.[10]
  • April 9, 2026Cisco announced its intent to acquire Galileo Technologies, Inc.[11]
  • November 25, 2025Cisco completed its acquisition of EzDubs, a privately held AI software company based in San Francisco.[13]
Not stated on its pages
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 5, 2026[12]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Cisco sells mainly to enterprises that need to secure hybrid environments spanning data center, cloud, campus, and IoT. Cisco addresses organizations with a global workforce that need secure access for humans, things, and agents under one consistent policy model. Cisco addresses enterprises that want to govern an agentic AI workforce. Security teams are addressed with unified intelligence and operations for visibility across users, systems, and AI agents.From its own pages, Huawei sells ICT infrastructure and smart devices, and states its aim as bringing digital to every person, home and organization. Huawei's SingleRAN material is aimed at operators that maintained multiple 2G, 3G, and 4G networks and needed to manage network evolution and reduce construction and operating costs. Huawei's RuralStar solution is aimed at remote, hard-to-reach communities, and Huawei has worked with a local carrier on a rural deployment in Nigeria.
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October 10, 2026October 12, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Firewalls and NGFW is the primary category of both Cisco and Huawei.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Cisco is also filed under SASE and SSE, Network access control and SIEM.
  • Cisco lists Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and 1 more. Huawei lists RuralStar and SingleRAN.
  • Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
  • Cisco was founded in 1984.
  • Cisco is a public company listed on NASDAQ as CSCO.
  • Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files Cisco under Firewalls and NGFW, SASE and SSE, Network access control, and SIEM, with Firewalls and NGFW as its primary category. Huawei sells RuralStar, a back-pack sized solution for voice, text and broadband data in remote communities, and SingleRAN, which processes 2G, 3G and 4G within the same equipment rack. Huawei describes itself as a provider of ICT infrastructure and smart devices.

Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States, was founded in 1984, and is listed on NASDAQ as CSCO. Huawei was founded in 1987. Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University as customers. For Huawei, the named deployments are O2, a subsidiary of Telefónica, which received the first SingleRAN network in Germany in 2008, and the carrier MTN, with which Huawei worked in rural Nigeria.

On August 12, 2026, Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion for the period ended July 25, 2026. Cisco announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a non-human identity security company, on May 4, 2026, and completed the acquisition on June 29, 2026. Huawei states that RuralStar has been deployed in more than 110 networks globally since 2017.

What it sells: Huawei

What RuralStar does[5]
It can be mounted on regular wooden or steel poles. RuralStar applies wireless backhaul technology that does not require line-of-sight to link to other nodes. Since 2017, RuralStar has been deployed in more than 110 networks globally.
What SingleRAN does[4]
SingleRAN enables 2G, 3G, and 4G radio access technologies to be processed within the same equipment rack. The GSM multi-carrier technology is the key in the SingleRAN solution. Huawei installed the first SingleRAN network for O2 in Germany in 2008.

Questions about Cisco and Huawei

What do Cisco and Huawei sell?
Cisco sells Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and 1 more. Huawei sells RuralStar and SingleRAN.
Are Cisco and Huawei in the same category?
Yes. Firewalls and NGFW is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Cisco and Huawei headquartered?
Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States.
When were Cisco and Huawei founded?
Cisco was founded in 1984.
Who owns Cisco and Huawei?
Cisco is a public company listed on NASDAQ as CSCO.
Which customers do Cisco and Huawei name?
Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.
Who are Cisco and Huawei sold to?
From its own pages, Cisco sells mainly to enterprises that need to secure hybrid environments spanning data center, cloud, campus, and IoT. From its own pages, Huawei sells ICT infrastructure and smart devices, and states its aim as bringing digital to every person, home and organization.
What have Cisco and Huawei announced recently?
August 12, 2026: Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion for the period ended July 25, 2026.

About Cisco

Cisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data. Cisco describes the offering as an open, network-native platform built to handle today's threats and enable the agentic enterprise at scale.

Cisco says its security applies policy, inspection, and enforcement at every connection. Cisco also describes unified data for earlier detection and faster response, powered by AI-driven context.

For cloud protection, Cisco describes securing modern cloud and AI apps at runtime with segmentation that keeps up with change, vulnerability shielding to close the patching gap, and protection for AI workloads. Cisco Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) is used to find malicious flows in encrypted traffic and to decrypt without sacrificing performance. Cisco says it stops zero days using Snort ML and Talos Threat Intelligence. Cisco offers distributed, optimized enforcement with unified management across a hybrid enterprise, and the same enforcement is described for data center, cloud, campus, and IoT environments.

Cisco describes a security architecture designed to defend modern, AI-scale data centers. Cisco says the architecture closes exploit gaps, segments everywhere, and self-qualifies updates and changes.

For workforce protection, Cisco describes secure access for humans, things, and agents with one consistent policy model. Cisco offers a cloud-native security service edge (SSE) that includes digital experience monitoring. Cisco offers a single-vendor SASE that unifies networking and security for a global workforce. Cisco offers identity security for the workforce that helps see across the entire identity ecosystem. Cisco offers multicloud NAC with zero trust, which uses intel from across the stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints, and deliver trusted access.

For threat intelligence and response, Cisco describes detecting, investigating, and responding faster with unified intelligence and operations. Cisco says this gives a team continuous visibility across users, systems, and AI agents in a single platform. Cisco describes unifying the data fabric, analytics, tooling and AI to automate the mundane, clarify the complex, and proactively mitigate risk.

Cisco also addresses agentic AI. Cisco describes safeguarding the agentic workforce against malicious attacks and data leakage. Cisco says it integrates identity, access, and behavioral controls to govern an agentic AI workforce and reduce risk. At RSAC 2026, Jeetu Patel, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer, challenged the industry to fundamentally reimagine security.

Cisco Services provide expert guidance to plan, design, implement, operate, and optimize an IT environment. Cisco says support for Cisco Security products is available through the Cisco support hub, which provides product-specific resources, documentation, downloads, and expert assistance.

Cisco on the record

Sources

Cisco full record

  1. [1]Security Products and Solutions for Cloud and Workforce Protection - CiscoCisco · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Cisco reports fourth quarter earningsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published August 12, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]IndexCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Cisco systems reaches agreement with state city on major land purchaseCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published April 17, 1996 · Tier A
  5. [5]MarriottCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]cisco.comCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Rosen hotels and resortsCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Elon universityCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cisco reports third quarter earningsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published May 13, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Cisco announces intent to acquire astrix securityCisco · blogs.cisco.com · published May 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Making AI Trustworthy and Observable in Real-Time: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire GalileoCisco Blogs · published April 9, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Cisco Security Services Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier C
  13. [13]Cisco completes EzDubs acquisition - CiscoCisco · published November 25, 2025 · Tier A

Huawei full record

  1. [1]SecurityHuawei · e.huawei.com · undated page, accessed October 12, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Huawei - Building a Fully Connected, Intelligent WorldHuawei · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]About Huawei - HuaweiHuawei · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]SingleRAN Marks a New Era in Mobile Network Architecture - HuaweiHuawei · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]RuralStar: Remote Doesn't Mean Out of Reach - HuaweiHuawei · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Protecting an Oasis of Biodiversity in Italy - HuaweiHuawei · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]SmartBus: Next Stop Online Safety - HuaweiHuawei · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Compliance & Integrity - HuaweiHuawei · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Anti-Bribery Compliance - HuaweiHuawei · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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