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Segment Information and Major Customers | 9 Months Ended
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Apr. 25, 2015
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, significant litigation and other contingencies, 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 and nine months ended April 25, 2015 and April 26, 2014, 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 |  | Nine Months Ended
| April 25, 2015 |  | April 26, 2014 |  | April 25, 2015 |  | April 26, 2014
Revenue: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Americas | $ | 7,252 |  |  | $ | 6,689 |  |  | $ | 21,854 |  |  | $ | 20,465 |
EMEA | 3,119 |  |  | 3,068 |  |  | 9,212 |  |  | 8,897 |
APJC | 1,766 |  |  | 1,788 |  |  | 5,252 |  |  | 5,423 |
Total | $ | 12,137 |  |  | $ | 11,545 |  |  | $ | 36,318 |  |  | $ | 34,785 |
Gross margin: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Americas | $ | 4,560 |  |  | $ | 4,196 |  |  | $ | 13,776 |  |  | $ | 12,823 |
EMEA | 1,949 |  |  | 1,967 |  |  | 5,774 |  |  | 5,725 |
APJC | 1,080 |  |  | 1,076 |  |  | 3,157 |  |  | 3,148 |
Segment total | 7,589 |  |  | 7,239 |  |  | 22,707 |  |  | 21,696 |
Unallocated corporate items | (64 | ) |  | (233 | ) |  | (759 | ) |  | (1,332 | )
Total | $ | 7,525 |  |  | $ | 7,006 |  |  | $ | 21,948 |  |  | $ | 20,364 |
Revenue in the United States was $6.4 billion and $5.9 billion for the three months ended April 25, 2015 and April 26, 2014, respectively, and was $19.1 billion and $17.9 billion for the nine months ended April 25, 2015 and April 26, 2014, 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, Collaboration, Service Provider Video, Data Center, Wireless, 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 |  | Nine Months Ended
| April 25, 2015 |  | April 26, 2014 |  | April 25, 2015 |  | April 26, 2014
Revenue: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Switching | $ | 3,560 |  |  | $ | 3,368 |  |  | $ | 11,022 |  |  | $ | 10,366 |
NGN Routing | 1,999 |  |  | 1,925 |  |  | 5,712 |  |  | 5,681 |
Collaboration | 973 |  |  | 909 |  |  | 2,912 |  |  | 2,859 |
Service Provider Video | 914 |  |  | 961 |  |  | 2,561 |  |  | 2,905 |
Data Center | 801 |  |  | 662 |  |  | 2,340 |  |  | 1,868 |
Wireless | 611 |  |  | 560 |  |  | 1,827 |  |  | 1,624 |
Security | 412 |  |  | 361 |  |  | 1,283 |  |  | 1,119 |
Other | 56 |  |  | 74 |  |  | 182 |  |  | 218 |
Product | 9,326 |  |  | 8,820 |  |  | 27,839 |  |  | 26,640 |
Service | 2,811 |  |  | 2,725 |  |  | 8,479 |  |  | 8,145 |
Total | $ | 12,137 |  |  | $ | 11,545 |  |  | $ | 36,318 |  |  | $ | 34,785 |
The Company has made certain reclassifications to the product revenue amounts for prior periods 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 April 25, 2015 and July 26, 2014 were attributable to its U.S. operations. The Company’s total cash and cash equivalents and investments held by various foreign subsidiaries were $51.8 billion and $47.4 billion as of April 25, 2015 and July 26, 2014, respectively, and the remaining $2.6 billion and $4.7 billion at the respective period ends were 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):
| April 25, 2015 |  | July 26, 2014
Property and equipment, net: |  |  |
United States | $ | 2,709 |  |  | $ | 2,697 |
International | 567 |  |  | 555 |
Total | $ | 3,276 |  |  | $ | 3,252 |

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