FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *   Tan Irving 2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 01/28/2018 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) SVP, Operations and Digital 5. If Amendment, Date Original Filed(Month/Day/Year) (Street) SAN JOSE, CA 95134 6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing(Check Applicable Line) _X_ Form filed by One Reporting Person ___ Form filed by More than One Reporting Person (City) (State) (Zip) 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 174,840 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) D Â

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Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		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

Reporting Owners

Reporting Owner Name / Address	Relationships
	Director	10% Owner	Officer	Other
Tan Irving 170 WEST TASMAN DRIVE SAN JOSE, CA 95134	Â	Â	  SVP, Operations and Digital	Â

Signatures

/s/ Irving Tan by Evan Sloves, Attorney-in-Fact		02/01/2018
**Signature of Reporting Person		Date

Explanation of Responses:

*	If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 5(b)(v).
**	Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
(1)	Includes: (i) the 9,500 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 38,000 shares of common stock on March 20, 2014, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on March 11, 2015; (ii) the 6,250 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 25,000 shares of common stock on May 29, 2014, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on June 11, 2015; (Continued on Footnotes 2, 3, 4 and 5)
(2)	(Continued from Footnote 1) (iii) the 5,000 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 20,000 shares of common stock on September 10, 2014, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2015; (iv) the 25,001 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 37,500 shares of common stock on May 28, 2015, which award vests in three (3) successive equal annual installments, with the first one-third (1/3) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2017; (Continued on Footnotes 3, 4 and 5)
(3)	(Continued from Footnotes 1 and 2) (v) the 15,000 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 30,000 shares of common stock on September 9, 2015, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2016; (vi) the 25,000 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 50,000 shares of common stock on November 18, 2015, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on November 20, 2016; (Continued on Footnotes 4 and 5)
(4)	(Continued from Footnotes 1, 2 and 3) (vii) the 22,500 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 30,000 shares of common stock on July 27, 2016, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on September 11, 2017; (viii) the 24,338 remaining unvested shares of a restricted stock unit award originally granted with respect to 32,450 shares of common stock on September 21, 2016, which award vests in four (4) successive equal annual installments, with the first twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on November 20, 2017; (Continued on Footnote 5)
(5)	(Continued from Footnotes 1, 2, 3 and 4) (ix) a restricted stock unit award with respect to 42,200 shares of common stock, which award was granted on September 20, 2017 and which vests in installments, with twenty five percent (25%) of the shares vesting on November 10, 2018 and six-and-one-quarter percent (6.25%) of the shares vesting quarterly thereafter.

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