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SD-WAN

Asked as “SD-WAN platform”, and as “software-defined WAN solution”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 44 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Clear leader
41% of first choices, clear leader.
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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessCisco Meraki SD-WAN40%ContestedStanding →Mid-marketFortinet Secure SD-WAN41%Clear leaderThis pageEnterpriseCisco Catalyst SD-WAN45%Clear leaderStanding →

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Fortinet Secure SD-WAN41%7%58endorsed leader
02Cisco Meraki SD-WAN30%21%34accepted challenger
03Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN9%47%32criticized challenger
04Aryaka5%0%10accepted challenger
05HPE Aruba EdgeConnect2%6%31accepted challenger
06Cisco2%6%18accepted challenger
07Versa Secure SD-WAN2%21%28accepted challenger
08VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN2%36%42criticized challenger
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11Peplink0%40%10criticized challenger
10Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN0%22%32accepted challenger
09Cato Networks0%6%18accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN vs Cisco Meraki SD-WANFortinet Secure SD-WAN vs Cisco Catalyst SD-WANCisco Meraki SD-WAN vs Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
Key
01Fortinet Secure SD-WAN41%
02Cisco Meraki SD-WAN30%
03Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN9%
04Aryaka5%
05HPE Aruba EdgeConnect2%
06Cisco2%
07Versa Secure SD-WAN2%
08VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN2%
09Cato Networks0%
10Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN0%
11Peplink0%

02What they warned about

Five of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
47%
15 of 32 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Cisco SD-WAN systems have been actively targeted by malicious cyber actors globally, with attackers exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
36%
15 of 42 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Massive instability post-acquisition... Currently on VeloCloud | Plan migration strategy” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
22%
7 of 32 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“A recent Reddit comment explicitly says **"Avoid Prisma entirely."**” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt
Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
21%
7 of 34 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Complex enterprise routing needs | Avoid Meraki” Kimi K2, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

65 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 812 links across 188 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

gartner.com
40 answers · 56 citations · 11 models
zpesystems.com
31 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
reddit.com
23 answers · 57 citations · 9 models
cisco.com
vendor site · Cisco21 answers · 34 citations · 10 models
interfacesystems.com
21 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
stlpartners.com
20 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
fortinet.com
vendor site · Fortinet18 answers · 29 citations · 10 models
networkworld.com
16 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
digitalcarbon.io
15 answers · 16 citations · 7 models
techtarget.com
15 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
costbench.com
14 answers · 23 citations · 8 models
netify.co.uk
13 answers · 16 citations · 9 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan
38 answers · 10 models
zpesystems.com/sd-wan-leaders-zs
28 answers · 8 models
interfacesystems.com/blog/top-sd-wan-vendors
21 answers · 8 models
stlpartners.com/articles/network-innovation/sd-wan-providers
20 answers · 9 models
digitalcarbon.io/blog/sd-wan-leaders-in-the-2024
15 answers · 7 models
comparitech.com/net-admin/best-sd-wan-vendors
12 answers · 6 models
techtarget.com/it-infrastructure/tip/SD-WAN-comparison-chart-10-vendors-to-…
12 answers · 8 models
reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1kuoatj/best_sdwan_providers_to_offer_smal…
10 answers · 8 models
costbench.com/best/sd-wan-for-enterprise
9 answers · 6 models
costbench.com/best/sd-wan-for-small-business
9 answers · 8 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best SD-WAN platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which software-defined WAN solution would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top SD-WAN platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best SD-WAN platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a SD-WAN platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which SD-WAN platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choice
Six alternativesCisco, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Aryaka
One alternativeFortinet Secure SD-WAN
against: Cisco Meraki SD-WANno first choiceagainst: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
GPT-5.4 miniFortinet Secure SD-WAN
Two alternativesCisco Meraki SD-WAN, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Fortinet Secure SD-WANHeld
Four alternativesCisco Catalyst SD-WAN, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Five alternativesFortinet Secure SD-WAN, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WANagainst: Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WANno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashCisco Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Two alternativesCato Networks, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Fortinet Secure SD-WANChanged
Two alternativesCato Networks, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
against: Cisco Catalyst SD-WANno first choiceUbiquiti UniFi
Five alternativesFortinet Secure SD-WAN, OPNsense, TP-Link Omada, flexiWAN, pfSense
against: Cisco Meraki SD-WANFortinet Secure SD-WAN
Three alternativesCisco Meraki SD-WAN, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
against: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, Generic ISP-Managed SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router (SSR) on Mist, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Perplexity SonarFortinet Secure SD-WAN
Four alternativesCato Networks, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Cisco Meraki SD-WANChanged
Two alternativesFortinet Secure SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
no first choice
Eight alternativesAryaka, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Two alternativesCisco Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
no first choiceagainst: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Windstream
Grok 4.1 FastCisco Meraki SD-WAN
Two alternativesFatPipe SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
against: Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WANCisco Meraki SD-WANHeld
Three alternativesFortinet Secure SD-WAN, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
against: Cisco Catalyst SD-WANno first choiceagainst: VMware VeloCloud SD-WANUbiquiti UniFi Dream Machine
Two alternativesFortinet Secure SD-WAN, Peplink Balance series
against: VyOS, flexiWANCisco
Three alternativesFortinet Secure SD-WAN, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, Versa Secure SD-WAN
against: Barracuda, Cisco, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Cradlepoint, FatPipe SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, ISP-Bundled SD-WAN, Peplink, Riverbed SteelConnect, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Mistral SmallHPE Aruba EdgeConnect, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
One alternativeCisco Meraki SD-WAN
Cisco Meraki SD-WANChanged
Two alternativesAryaka, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
no first choiceCisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Three alternativesCato Networks, Peplink, Teltonika
no first choiceagainst: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
DeepSeek V4 FlashCisco Meraki SD-WAN
Two alternativesCato Networks, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Fortinet Secure SD-WANChanged
One alternativeCisco Meraki SD-WAN
against: Versa Secure SD-WANFortinet Secure SD-WAN
Two alternativesCisco, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
against: VMware VeloCloud SD-WANFortinet Secure SD-WAN
Two alternativesPeplink, Ubiquiti UniFi
against: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki SD-WANno first choiceagainst: Barracuda, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cradlepoint, FatPipe SD-WAN, Nuage, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, Peplink, Riverbed SteelConnect, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceCisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Three alternativesFortinet Secure SD-WAN, Peplink, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
no first choiceagainst: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Qwen 3.7 FlashCisco Meraki SD-WAN
Four alternativesFatPipe SD-WAN, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, MetTel, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Cisco Meraki SD-WANHeld
One alternativeFortinet Secure SD-WAN
Cisco
Three alternativesFortinet Secure SD-WAN, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
against: VMware VeloCloud SD-WANFortinet Secure SD-WAN
Two alternativesPeplink, Sophos
against: MikroTik, VyOS / OPNsenseVersa Secure SD-WAN
Three alternativesFortinet Secure SD-WAN, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, VMware NSX
against: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Kimi K2Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Four alternativesCato Networks, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, Versa Secure SD-WAN
against: VMware VeloCloud SD-WANCisco Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WANChanged
One alternativeVersa Secure SD-WAN
no first choice
Four alternativesCisco, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
against: HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, VMware VeloCloud SD-WANFortinet Secure SD-WAN
Two alternativesCato Networks, Peplink
against: Cisco Catalyst SD-WANno first choice
Four alternativesCisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
against: VMware VeloCloud SD-WANagainst: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, Peplink, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
GLM 4.7 FlashXFortinet Secure SD-WAN
Four alternativesCato Networks, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Cisco Meraki SD-WANChanged
One alternativeVMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
no first choiceFortinet Secure SD-WAN, QuickSDWAN
Three alternativesCisco Meraki SD-WAN, Ubiquiti EdgeRouter SD‑WAN, flexiWAN
against: OpenWrt / VyOS with SD‑WAN add‑onsno first choiceagainst: HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, Masergy, New Horizon Communications, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, Spectrotel, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN, Windstream
MiniMax M2.5Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Four alternativesCato Networks, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Aryaka, Cisco Meraki SD-WANChanged
Two alternativesCato Networks, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
no first choice
Six alternativesCisco, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
One alternativePeplink
against: VMware VeloCloud SD-WANno first choiceagainst: Cato Networks, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Lumen, Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN, Peplink, Versa Secure SD-WAN
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:21no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 11:59yes35 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 11:49yes1223 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:56yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:52yes3115 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:23yes53 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:04yes2124 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 11:29yes54 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:26yes531 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:37yes1358 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:17yes30142 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:09yes518 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:07yes1026 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:37no04 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:37yes822 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:33yes204 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:02yes118 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 11:28yes109 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 13:54yes1952 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 09:22yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:27yes1048 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:36yes2047 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:58yes998 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:42yes836 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 11:54yes1710 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 12:48yes711 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 11:30yes2131 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 11:49yes2011 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:53yes139 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 10:58yes88 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:24yes1728 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 11:00yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:31yes923 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:44yes1236 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:29yes16146 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:38yes1538 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 10:03yes1711 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:42yes55 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:25yes1921 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 12:10yes204 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:20yes3017 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 11:55yes118 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:40yes1415 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:33yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 12:01no034 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 12:28yes1017 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 13:57yes1552 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:58yes514 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 09:36yes99 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 11:17no07 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:55yes1127 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 14:03yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 09:56yes1610 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:50no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 12:02yes1018 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:00yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 09:52no044 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:39yes1936 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:26yes1076 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 09:43yes518 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 10:19yes189 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:41no07 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:24yes2527 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:53yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 09:56yes3919 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 10:45yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 12:35yes2446 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 11:07yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 13:13yes1348 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:10yes2438 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:12yes22153 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:56yes1775 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Broadcom (VMware SASE SD-WAN) read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Broadcom (VMware SASE) read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Broadcom (VMware) read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Broadcom/VMware read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Cato read as Cato Networks
Cato Networks read as Cato Networks
Cato Networks (SASE) read as Cato Networks
Cisco Catalyst read as Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Cisco Meraki read as Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
Citrix read as Citrix SD-WAN
FatPipe read as FatPipe SD-WAN
FortiGate read as Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Fortinet read as Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Fortinet (FortiGate Secure SD-WAN) read as Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Fortinet (Secure SD-WAN) read as Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
Fortinet FortiGate read as Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
HPE read as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
HPE (Aruba EdgeConnect) read as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
HPE (Aruba Networking) read as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
HPE (Aruba) read as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
HPE Aruba read as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
HPE Aruba (EdgeConnect) read as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) read as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
Lumen SD-WAN read as Lumen
Nuage Networks (now Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise / Nokia) read as Nuage
Palo Alto read as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Palo Alto (Prisma SD-WAN) read as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Palo Alto Networks read as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Palo Alto Networks (Prisma SD-WAN) read as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Palo Alto Networks (Traditional PAN-OS SD-WAN Hardware) read as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Palo Alto Prisma read as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Palo Alto Prisma Access read as Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
Prisma read as Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Riverbed (SteelConnect) read as Riverbed SteelConnect
Ubiquiti read as Ubiquiti UniFi
VMware read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
VMware (VeloCloud) read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
VMware (Velocloud) read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
VMware VeloCloud read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
VMware VeloCloud (Now Broadcom) read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
VMware VeloCloud (now Arista/Broadcom) read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
VMware VeloCloud (now Broadcom) read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
VMware VeloCloud (now part of Broadcom) read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
Versa read as Versa Secure SD-WAN
Versa Networks read as Versa Secure SD-WAN
Versa Networks (Versa SD-WAN) read as Versa Secure SD-WAN
Unresolved, counted raw
Adaptiv Enterprise Connect
Bigleaf
Generic ISP-Managed SD-WAN
ISP-Bundled SD-WAN (e.g., Carrier Proprietary Solutions)
Juniper Session Smart Router (SSR) on Mist
OpenWrt / VyOS with SD‑WAN add‑ons
Peplink Balance series
QuickSDWAN
TP-Link Omada
Teltonica Networks
Teltonika
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter SD‑WAN
VMware NSX (VeloCloud)
VyOS
VyOS / OPNsense
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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