Where is Cisco Systems heading? Cisco Systems known for networking equipment for telecommunications providers and other big companies has purchased Tribe.net The Tribe purchase in addition to they’re Five Across (provider of social networking /community technology) purchase will give Cisco the technology to help large corporate clients create services resembling My Space or You Tube in order to bring their customers together online. If in fact that is the direction Cisco is heading, that ambition highlights a significant shift in the way companies are thinking about social networks.