FORM 3
        	UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
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                      	Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	                      	

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *

Dedicoat Chris	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (MM/DD/YYYY)
7/26/2015 
	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. [CSCO]	
(Last)        (First)        (Middle)

170 WEST TASMAN DRIVE	4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable)

_____ Director                            _____ 10% Owner
___ X ___ Officer (give title below)          _____ Other (specify below)
EVP, Worldwide Sales /	
(Street)

SAN JOSE, CA 95134       

(City)              (State)              (Zip)	5. If Amendment, Date Original Filed (MM/DD/YYYY)

	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

_ X _ Form filed by One Reporting Person
___ Form filed by More than One Reporting Person	

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned	
1.Title of Security
(Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned
(Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 5)	
Common Stock  	385544   (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)	D  	 	

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned ( e.g. , puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)	
1. Title of Derivate Security
(Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date
(MM/DD/YYYY)	3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security
(Instr. 4)	4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form of Derivative Security: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 5)	
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares				
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)  	9/20/2008   (6)	9/20/2016  	Common Stock  	180000  	$32.21  	D  	 	

Explanation of Responses:	
(  1) 	Includes: (i) the 10,000 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 40,000 shares of common stock on September 8, 2011, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2012; (ii) the 25,000 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 100,000 shares of common stock on June 14, 2012, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on June 11, 2013; (Continued on Footnotes 2, 3, 4 and 5)	
(  2) 	(Continued from Footnote 1) (iii) the 37,500 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 75,000 shares of common stock on September 12, 2012, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2013; (iv) a restricted stock unit award with respect to 100,000 shares of common stock, which award was granted on October 3, 2012 and which vests in two (2) successive equal installments, with the first fifty percent (50%) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2015 and the remaining fifty percent (50%) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2016; (Continued on Footnotes 3, 4 and 5)	
(  3) 	(Continued from Footnotes 1 and 2) (v) the 50,000 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 100,000 shares of common stock on June 13, 2013, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on June 11, 2014; (vi) the 37,500 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 50,000 shares of common stock on September 18, 2013, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2014; (Continued on Footnotes 4 and 5)	
(  4) 	(Continued from Footnotes 1, 2 and 3) (vii) a restricted stock unit award with respect to 50,000 shares of common stock, which award was granted on September 10, 2014 and which vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2015; (viii) a restricted stock unit award with respect to 25,000 shares of common stock, which award was granted on November 21, 2014 and which vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on November 20, 2015; and (Continued on Footnote 5)	
(  5) 	(Continued from Footnotes 1, 2, 3 and 4) (ix) a restricted stock unit award with respect to 50,000 shares of common stock, which award was granted on May 28, 2015 and which vests in three (3) successive equal annual installments, with the first one-third (1/3) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2017.	
(  6) 	The option is immediately exercisable.	

Reporting Owners	
Reporting Owner Name / Address	Relationships	
	Director	10% Owner	Officer	Other	
Dedicoat Chris
170 WEST TASMAN DRIVE
SAN JOSE, CA 95134			EVP, Worldwide Sales		

Signatures		
/s/ Chris Dedicoat by Prat Bhatt, Attorney-in-Fact		8/4/2015	
** Signature of Reporting Person		Date

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS , that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Prat Bhatt, Kelly Kramer, Mark Chandler and Evan Sloves, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
 
 (1)           execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer of Cisco Systems, Inc. (the “Company”), any and all Form ID, or Form 3, 4 or 5 reports required to be filed by the undersigned in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder with respect to transactions in Cisco securities;
 
 (2)           do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form ID, or Form 3, 4 or 5 report and timely file such report with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
 
 (3)           take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned, pursuant to this Power of Attorney, shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his or her discretion.
 
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that no such attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is hereby assuming, nor is the Company hereby assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
 
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Form 3, 4 or 5 reports with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 15th day of July, 2015.

 	 	Signature: /s/ Chris Dedicoat	 	
 	 	Printed Name:  Chris Dedicoat