cisco-annual-report-2021

Product Revenue by Category
In addition to the primary view on a geographic basis, we also prepare financial information related to product categories and
customer markets for various purposes. We report our product revenue in the following categories: Infrastructure Platforms,
Applications, Security, and Other Products.
The following table presents product revenue by category (in millions, except percentages):
July 31,
2021
Years Ended 2021 vs. 2020
July 25,
2020
July 27,
2019
Variance
in Dollars
Variance
in Percent
Product revenue:
Infrastructure Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 27,109 $ 27,219 $ 30,184 $ (110) —%
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,504 5,568 5,803 (64) (1)%
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,382 3,158 2,822 224 7%
Other Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 33 196 (14) (43)%
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 36,014 $ 35,978 $ 39,005 $ 36 —%
Amounts may not sum and percentages may not recalculate due to rounding. Prior period amounts have been reclassified to
conform to the current period’s presentation.
Infrastructure Platforms
The Infrastructure Platforms product category represents our core networking offerings related to switching, routing, wireless,
and the data center. Infrastructure Platforms revenue was flat compared to fiscal 2020, with growth in routing and wireless,
offset by declines in switching and data center. This was the product area most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic environment
in the first half of fiscal 2021. Switching revenue declined in both campus switching and data center switching, although we
had strong revenue growth in our Catalyst 9000 Series, Meraki switching offerings and Nexus 9000 Series. We experienced an
increase in sales of routing products, with growth primarily in the service provider market. Wireless had strong growth driven
by our Meraki and WiFi-6 products. Revenue from data center declined driven by continued market contraction impacting
primarily our servers products.
Applications
The Applications product category includes our collaboration offerings (unified communications, Cisco TelePresence and
conferencing) as well as IoT and AppDynamics analytics software offerings. Revenue in our Applications product category
decreased by 1%, or $64 million, with a decline in Unified Communications and Cisco TelePresence partially offset by double
digit growth in IoT software offerings and growth in Webex.
Security
Revenue in our Security product category increased 7%, or $224 million. Revenue from our cloud security portfolio reflected
strong double-digit growth and continued momentum with our Duo and Umbrella offerings.
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