Sundry Photography It's interesting how market cycles play out. 25 years ago, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) was arguably the hottest stock in the world. At one point, it briefly obtained the title of being America's largest market cap company with its valuation touching $500 billion at the peak. At the time, investors were betting on a seemingly unending exponential growth curve in networking equipment. Telecom companies were greenlighting an unending array of fiber optic cables without a care in the world. T ...