CISCO IS RECOGNIZED AS A
2026 COMPANY OF THE YEAR
Frost & Sullivan has identified the company as demonstrating best practices within the enterprise desktop phone industry.
What You Need to Know about the Company of the Year Recognition
Frost & Sullivan’s Company of the Year Recognition is its top honor and recognizes the market participant that exemplifies visionary innovation, market-leading performance, and unmatched customer care.
For the Company of the Year Recognition, Frost & Sullivan analysts independently evaluated the criteria listed below.
“The ability to integrate Cisco phones with Cisco Spaces and Control Hub simplifies IT management and provides insights that enable IT and corporate real estate teams to make informed decisions about workplace technology investment, reducing the complexity of purchasing, deploying, managing, and training. This level of management integration is a structural differentiator that competing solutions cannot replicate without assembling multiple separate tools.”
- Chris Pennell, Industry Principal
"Cisco’s desk phone portfolio, particularly the 9800 series, represents a rare and genuinely transformative achievement in the global enterprise desktop telephone devices industry, one that simultaneously advances security, sustainability, user experience, AI-powered audio intelligence, and operational manageability within a single, cohesive product architecture."
- Chris Pennell, Industry Principal
Cisco Receives the 2026 Global Enterprise Desktop Phone Company of the Year Recognition for Outstanding Enterprise Communications Innovation
The company is redefining enterprise desk phone solutions through an integrated device experience that combines secure communications, intelligent workplace management, and operational excellence across the modern enterprise.