Term used to describe someone who believes that Cisco has a product for every need or is the best solution for every problem. Regardless of the problem. And regardless of the solution. Distinguished by their plumage, the ‘free polo shirt’ (only three dollars in bulk from China’), or the ‘free Cisco fleece’ (only grudgingly handed out today for deals in excess of USD$1 million, because of budget cutbacks).
More extreme cases wear the ‘CCIE Bomber Jacket’ or ‘Networkers 2001 shirt’ but these are very rare indeed.
In recent times, Cisco has not had everything go their way with Juniper and Huawei spoiling the fun, so some Ciscotist’s are toning down their strident pitch.
While its probably true that Cisco IOS remains king, and the ASA firewalls are neat, some of Cisco’s other products haven’t been so great – big shout out to the CSS and CS-MARS people, oh yes, thanks for bringing those out. And who can forget the Lightstream 100, or the Cisco 8500. Ah, good times.
Lesser known terms:
- Ciscotista – alternate terminology
- Cistarian
- Ciscidiot
- Ciscwit
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About Greg Ferro
Since I think I helped inspire this, I should say that I definitely agree that some of the stuff you really should look at alternatives on is the “non core” (despite what Cisco says) stuff like voice and video. There’s good products, but some stinkers, too. Some like MeetingPlace are a good idie, but the support is going to be rough until the product has been rewritten to be part of the voice architecture instead of being a proprietary product Cisco bought and is slowly integrating.
I refuse to pay for the shirts. They want me to wear them, they better provide them for free.
I would agree. Free shirts are like free lunches. If you want advertising and good PR for Cisco, you better send over all the free swag I can handle. Until then, I will wear my EMC, IBM, NEC, Sniffer, etc..free swag. We have enough Ciscotists’ already…
Thanks!