Cisco opens new regional HQ in Singapore

[Published June 2013 and last updated November 2026] The American IT and communications giant Cisco has opened a new office in Singapore as the headquarters for its wider Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China operations.

Cisco is among the largest companies of its kind in the world, and its launch of a new office in Singapore coincides with the 20^th anniversary of its first office opening in the country.

Sales, marketing, human resources and finance departments for the Asia-Pacific will be based in Cisco’s new Singapore offices as it aims to expand the scale at which it supplies IT equipment to businesses and other organisations across the region.

The Asia Pacific HQ will serve as an operating base for close to 1,000 Cisco employees, bringing together a local workforce that was until recently spread across four offices across the island. The site chosen for the consolidated office base was the UE Biz Hub, which forms part of the Changi Business Park.

“Singapore stands out as a shining model in the world of what can be achieved by an economy through information and communications technologies (ICT),” said Gary Moore, Cisco’s president and chief operating officer.

“Singapore’s vision is very much aligned with Cisco’s, especially when it comes to the Internet and education, two of the great equalisers in life. These have formed the foundation for Singapore’s success, and Cisco is proud to have played a role in both of them,” he added.

Cisco explained that when it was first established with offices in Singapore in 1994, the country as a whole was just getting to grips with the internet and its potential as a business and educational tool. These days Singapore is one of the most economically important cities in Asia and one of the most technologically advanced in the world.

Editor’s notes: As of November 2026, Cisco’s Singapore office was listed as Pasir Panjang Road in Mapletree Biz City, close to Labrador Park Station (CC27) on the Circle Line. 

As is usual for large tech occupiers, the location is outside the CBD and about 7 kilometres from Singapore’s Raffles Place-Marina Bay submarket, which is more popular with banking, finance, professional services and legal institutions.

In Q3 2026, rents for prime offices in Singapore’s Raffles Place-Marina Bay submarket rose 1.5 per cent q-o-q to an average of S$11.87 per square foot per month, while occupancy climbed 0.7 percentage points to 97.4 per cent over the same period.

Overall CBD office vacancy also fell to 5.9 per cent in Q3, the lowest in 10 quarters.