About Cistor

Built to deliver commercial certainty.

Honest design, real supply chain ownership, and a team that's still here long after go-live.

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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.

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Our Story

Cistor: a Cisco specialist built to deliver commercial certainty

Since 2008, we’ve helped technology leaders turn networking investment into business outcomes. As customer needs have evolved, from reducing costs to expanding internationally, maintaining critical services and supporting new technologies, our focus has remained consistent: technical expertise, dependable delivery and certainty.

2008 to 2013

Proving a better return on networking investment

Cistor began during the global financial crisis with a clear ambition: networking solutions with a better, more consistent return on investment.

UK customers responded to our mix of technical expertise and attentive service, and we passed $1 million in turnover in our first year. Working with organisations including Nomura and the London Stock Exchange, we set the principle that still guides us: networking investment should deliver commercial value, not just technical capability.

2013 to 2018

Helping customers grow across borders

As the economy recovered, our customers’ ambitions became international. They needed a partner who could help them expand without making their supply chains harder to manage.

We supported Colt Technology Services’ expansion into the US, helped Verizon and Singtel deliver in Europe, and worked with International SOS and Expereo across global markets. Our role grew from supplying infrastructure to helping customers deliver their international growth plans.

2018 to 2023

Building resilience when supply chains came under pressure

Cloud adoption raised expectations for speed and scale. Then COVID disrupted supply chains, stretched lead times and made getting equipment to the right place a critical business challenge.

We built a delivery model around anticipating customer demand and planning supply ahead of need. We got infrastructure into locked-down New York for Deutsche Bank, supported Vodafone’s critical national infrastructure, and kept supply resilient for organisations including the Ministry of Defence and the NHS. The priority was always the same: keep essential projects and services moving.

2023 to present

Delivering certainty in a more complex world

Today, service providers and large technology users face rising costs, unpredictable supply chains and new demands from AI, satellite connectivity and other emerging technologies.

We help them plan and deliver with confidence: the right product, at the right price, in the right place, at the right time. That means supporting market leaders such as Arelion, whose network carries 70% of the world’s internet traffic, and Viasat, which keeps people connected in the air and across oceans.

That is what we mean by commercial certainty: giving customers the confidence to commit to budgets, delivery dates and the services their own customers depend on.

Anthony Levy, founder of Cistor
Our Founder

Meet the man who started it all.

Anthony LevyFounder & CEO, Cistor

Anthony started Cistor in 2008, in the middle of the global financial crisis, to give organisations a better, more consistent return on their networking investment, and 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 other half of that story: making sure good hardware doesn't end up as landfill just because a lease ran out.

Why Customers Choose Cistor

Cisco specialists. Commercial certainty. Global delivery.

Cisco Specialist Partnership

Practical design expertise, backed by a direct Cisco partnership, that turns technology vision into a resilient, scalable network.

Faster Commercial Certainty

Shorter lead times and faster service activation, with commercial certainty built around your own rollout plan.

Delivered Internationally

The same design, supply-chain and delivery capability, extended across borders to wherever your rollout takes you.

Cisco Partnership

Certified across the estate.

Partnership

Cisco Partner

Full-estate coverage across switching, routing, security, collaboration and data centre platforms.

Programme

Cisco Networking and Services Partner

Over 18 years as a dedicated Cisco partner, with certifications covering the full Cisco estate.

Team

Cisco-Certified Engineers

Every engineer on a project is certified on the platforms they're designing and deploying.

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