Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 41 of 69, unchanged
3 categories · Named, not rankedArista
11Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
8 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Arista was named 6 times in SD-WAN and 2 other categories, where Fortinet Secure SD-WAN led with 50%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business43 of 71
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market36 of 73
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In sd-wan · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Arista for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | Network and edge | 0% | 36 of 73 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN at 50% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Network access control | Network and edge | 0% | 42 of 111 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Portnox Cloud at 35% | |
| Next-generation firewalls | Network and edge | 0% | 73 of 83 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 73% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Arista held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SD-WAN · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 30 → 35 of 67
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 30 → 36 of 73 |
| NAC | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 42 of 111, unchanged |
| Firewalls | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 73 of 83, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Arista across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Arista across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“VeloCloud is famous for its cloud-hosted gateways and industry-leading dynamic multipath optimization (DMPO).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SD-WAN · scale prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Avoid unless you have specialized expertise and can immediately patch any Arista NGFW deployments.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Firewalls · negative prompt · hard negative
“Broadcom sold VeloCloud assets to Arista—creating yet another transition period where product roadmap and support models remain unclear” Kimi K2 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Arista, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Arista was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Arista, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Arista was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Arista. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 7 of the 11 answers that named Arista and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
arista.comYour site3
reddit.com3
commandlink.com2
delloro.com2
netify.co.uk2
scribd.com2
zenarmor.com2
zpesystems.com2
143485449.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net1
analysysmason.com1
Seventeen of the twenty domain citations in answers naming Arista came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
arista.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Arista takes 0% of first choices and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN takes 50%.ShowHide
Search and answers
arista.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Arista takes 0% of first choices and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN takes 50%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “sd-wan platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “sd-wan platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Organic visits to its site
- about 46,898 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,979 · 542 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 10,259
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 36 of 73 in SD-WAN
Segment leader
50%
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 11 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 7 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on arista.com
1,655
subdomains included
Content
492
counted in the table below
Documentation
3
Product · Integration
18 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 254 | undated | SD-WAN, APM | ||
| News or press | 132 | undated | SD-WAN, Firewalls | ||
| Case study | 79 | 0 | 2019-11-21 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 13 | 0 | 2019-11-15 | SD-WAN | |
| Report or ebook | 9 | 0 | 2021-01-12 | SD-WAN | |
| Comparison | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2021-01-12E books and guides report or ebook
- 2019-12-11Cybersecurity audit e book hp graphic report or ebook
- 2019-11-21Video case study greenbeanit case study
- 2019-11-21Video case study greenbeanit large case study
- 2019-11-15December 5 webinar graphic webinar or virtual event
- 2019-11-11Sd wan webinar hp graphic webinar or virtual event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page arista.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Arista
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Arista; a claim can dispute any of them.
Arista/Awake Security 1VMware VeloCloud / Arista 1
Follow Arista
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Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Arista is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Arista is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Data-Driven Cloud Networking
- For
- large data center storage and computing environments
- Certifications
- CIS Controls 8.1Cyber EssentialsCyber Essentials PlusENSENS RD311/2022 HIGHSOC 2SOC 2 Type 2
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers
What Arista's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: arista.com, trust.arista.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Arista's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Arista, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Arista by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Arista is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Arista, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.