---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-033389"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CSCO"
cik: "0000858877"
company_name: "CISCO SYSTEMS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T06:38:32.422819+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cisco issues $5B in senior notes across five tranches; rates 4.55%-5.50%

## Summary
- $1B 4.550% notes due 2028, $1B 4.750% due 2030, $1B 4.950% due 2032, $1.25B 5.100% due 2035, $750M 5.500% due 2055.
- Proceeds used for general corporate purposes, including repayment of commercial paper borrowings.
- Notes are unsecured and rank equally with existing and future senior unsecured debt.
- Underwriters include BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-033389
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CSCO
- cik: 0000858877
- company_name: CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000119312525033389/0001193125-25-033389-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000119312525033389/d916866d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-033389
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-033389.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-033389.txt

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.