Honest design, real supply chain ownership, and a team that's still here long after go-live.
We started Cistor to be the supply chain partner customers can always trust.
Designing networks properly, sourcing hardware honestly, and staying on the account long after go-live. That's the whole job, start to finish, whether it's one switch or a global rollout.
See how we workDesign and supply chain are usually handled separately. Cistor set out to bring both together, working alongside the partners and teams our customers already trust.
Partner status meant full-estate coverage, not a single product line - and design and delivery working hand in hand, so the plan on paper is the network that goes live.
Forecasting demand and pre-staging stock so clients get precisely what they need, precisely when they need it. For over 15 years that has meant delivering Cisco solutions to COLT globally, buffering against lead-time and cost fluctuations.
That part hasn't changed since day one - honest advice, predictable pricing and lead times, and a delivery plan you can rely on from purchase order to go-live.

Anthony started Cistor in 2008 to break the industry's habit of throwing hardware away long before it needed replacing.
A longer life for existing technology beats a three-year replacement cycle - that's the idea behind everything Circularity First does, and it's part of why Cistor is a Cisco Circular Economy Partner. Anthony's spent well over a decade putting it into practice across Europe, the US and Asia, work that's since been recognised with a techUK Planet Award.
He still gets most animated talking about the same thing that started it all: making sure good hardware doesn't end up as landfill just because a lease ran out.
Practical design expertise, backed by a direct Cisco partnership, that turns technology vision into a resilient, scalable network.
Shorter lead times and quicker service activation, with commercial certainty built around your own rollout plan.
The same design, supply-chain and delivery capability, extended across borders to wherever your rollout takes you.
Measure and reduce energy costs and carbon by up to 60%, diversify your supply chain and cut eWaste through circular economy programmes and remanufactured Cisco portfolios.
Full-estate coverage across switching, routing, security, collaboration and data centre platforms.
One of the first, with certified remanufactured hardware backed and warrantied the same way as new equipment.
Every engineer on a project is certified on the platforms they're designing and deploying.