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Segment Information And Major Customers | 3 Months Ended
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Oct. 26, 2013
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Segment Information and Major Customers |
17. | Segment Information and Major Customers
(a) | Revenue and Gross Margin by Segment
The Company conducts business globally and is primarily managed on a geographic basis consisting of three segments: the Americas; EMEA; and APJC. The Company’s management makes financial decisions and allocates resources based on the information it receives from its internal management system. Sales are attributed to a segment based on the ordering location of the customer. The Company does not allocate research and development, sales and marketing, or general and administrative expenses to its segments in this internal management system because management does not include the information in its measurement of the performance of the operating segments. In addition, the Company does not allocate amortization and impairment of acquisition-related intangible assets, share-based compensation expense, impacts to cost of sales from purchase accounting adjustments to inventory, charges related to asset impairments and restructurings, and certain other charges to the gross margin for each segment because management does not include this information in its measurement of the performance of the operating segments. Summarized financial information by segment for the three months ended October 26, 2013 and October 27, 2012, based on the Company’s internal management system and as utilized by the Company’s Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), is as follows (in millions):
| Three Months Ended
| October 26, 2013 |  | October 27, 2012
Revenue: |  |  |
Americas | $ | 7,316 |  |  | $ | 7,023 |
EMEA | 2,933 |  |  | 2,841 |
APJC | 1,836 |  |  | 2,012 |
Total | $ | 12,085 |  |  | $ | 11,876 |
Gross margin: |  |  |
Americas | 4,650 |  |  | 4,468 |
EMEA | 1,888 |  |  | 1,798 |
APJC | 1,079 |  |  | 1,176 |
Segment total | 7,617 |  |  | 7,442 |
Unallocated corporate items | (210 | ) |  | (203 | )
Total | $ | 7,407 |  |  | $ | 7,239 |
Revenue in the United States, which is included in the Americas, was $6.4 billion and $6.1 billion for the three months ended October 26, 2013 and October 27, 2012, respectively.
(b) | Revenue for Groups of Similar Products and Services
The Company designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and IT industry, and provides services associated with these products and their use. The Company groups its products and technologies into the following categories: Switching, NGN Routing, Service Provider Video, Collaboration, Wireless, Data Center, Security, and Other Products. These products, primarily integrated by Cisco IOS Software, link geographically dispersed local-area networks (LANs), metropolitan-area networks (MANs), and wide-area networks (WANs). The following table presents revenue for groups of similar products and services (in millions):
| Three Months Ended
| October 26, 2013 |  | October 27, 2012
Revenue: |  |  |
Switching | $ | 3,754 |  |  | $ | 3,629 |
NGN Routing | 2,043 |  |  | 2,055 |
Collaboration | 1,027 |  |  | 1,020 |
Service Provider Video | 987 |  |  | 1,149 |
Data Center | 601 |  |  | 417 |
Wireless | 540 |  |  | 499 |
Security | 365 |  |  | 338 |
Other | 80 |  |  | 190 |
Product | 9,397 |  |  | 9,297 |
Service | 2,688 |  |  | 2,579 |
Total | $ | 12,085 |  |  | $ | 11,876 |
The Company has made certain reclassifications to the prior period amounts to conform to the current period’s presentation. (c) Additional Segment Information The majority of the Company’s assets, excluding cash and cash equivalents and investments, as of October 26, 2013 and July 27, 2013 were attributable to its U.S. operations. The Company’s total cash and cash equivalents and investments held by various foreign subsidiaries were $42.0 billion and $40.4 billion as of October 26, 2013 and July 27, 2013, respectively, and the remaining $6.2 billion and $10.2 billion at the respective period ends was available in the United States. Property and equipment information is based on the physical location of the assets. The following table presents property and equipment information for geographic areas (in millions):
| October 26, 2013 |  | July 27, 2013
Property and equipment, net: |  |  |
United States | $ | 2,687 |  |  | $ | 2,780 |
International | 586 |  |  | 542 |
Total | $ | 3,273 |  |  | $ | 3,322 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8380-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 10 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8538-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8864-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 35 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8924-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 33 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8595-108599 + Details
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