Every category where a model named Cisco Catalyst Center 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
Network monitoring and management	Network and edge	0%	33 of 78	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Auvik at 26%
Data center networking	Network and edge	0%	90 of 165	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27%
DDI and IP address management	Network and edge	0%	38 of 115	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by BlueCat Micetro at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cisco Catalyst Center yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Cisco Catalyst Center across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase16 labels8

Comparative4 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 9 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.

“Cisco Catalyst Center (Ranked #1)” MiniMax M2.5 · Data center networking · comparative prompt · first choice

“If you have existing Cisco equipment, Cisco DNA Center might be a natural fit.” MiniMax M2.5 · Network monitoring · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Cisco Catalyst Center if you're mostly a Cisco shop” GPT-5.4 mini · Network monitoring · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Excellent if you're already in a Cisco environment.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DDI and IPAM · paraphrase 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.

“relying *only* on the vendor's proprietary suite (e.g., only using Cisco DNA Center) locks you out of unified visibility across your stack” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Network monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“Vendor‑only management stacks (e.g., Cisco DNA Center, Arista CloudVision, Juniper Contrail) with tight coupling to hardware.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Data center networking · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Catalyst Center, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Catalyst Center was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor11 of 313Not among the top eight

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform8 of 312Not among the top eight

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor7 of 311Not among the top eight

Zabbix6 of 311Not among the top eight

Juniper Apstra6 of 310Not among the top eight

ManageEngine OpManager6 of 310Not among the top eight

VMware NSX6 of 310Not among the top eight

Auvik5 of 313Not among the top eight

Datadog Network Monitoring5 of 311Not among the top eight

LogicMonitor5 of 311Not among the top eight

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 Cisco Catalyst Center. 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 26 of the 31 answers that named Cisco Catalyst Center and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cisco.comYour site10

g2.com9

peerspot.com9

blog.domotz.com8

blog.invgate.com7

guideflow.com7

sourceforge.net7

techtarget.com7

us.fitgap.com7

auvik.com6

Sixty-seven of the seventy-seven domain citations in answers naming Cisco Catalyst Center came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.invgate.com/network-automation-tools7

techtarget.com/it-infrastructure/feature/Compare-7-network-automation-tools-and-their-capa6

blog.domotz.com/all/best-network-automation-software5

em360tech.com/top-10/network-automation-tools5

guideflow.com/blog/network-automation-software5

auvik.com/franklyit/blog/best-network-automation-software4

blog.domotz.com/all/top-10-network-management-software4

cloudeagle.ai/blogs/network-automationt-tools4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Cisco Catalyst Center stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 1,300 a month (“cisco catalyst center”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 92 a month
Its own site: It sits on Cisco's site (cisco.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 33 of 78 in network monitoring

Segment leader

26%

Auvik

First choices: 8 across its categories
Named in: 31 answers
Its own site cited: in 26 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

Names read as Cisco Catalyst Center

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cisco Catalyst Center; a claim can dispute any of them.

Cisco DNA Center 4

Follow Cisco Catalyst Center

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Cisco is the company behind Cisco Catalyst Center.

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On record

Company records

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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 Cisco Catalyst Center'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 Cisco Catalyst Center, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cisco Catalyst Center by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cisco Catalyst Center 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 Cisco Catalyst Center, 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.