1 category · Named, not rankedCisco Catalyst
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data center networking | Network and edge | 0% | 121 of 165 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cisco Catalyst across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 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 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
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.
“White box switches commonly cost one-half to one-third what a comparable Cisco Catalyst or Arista switch runs” Muse Glimmer 30B · Data center networking · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco Catalyst, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Catalyst was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 5 answers that named Cisco Catalyst and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Nineteen of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming Cisco Catalyst came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cisco.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cisco Catalyst takes 0% of first choices and Arista Networks takes 27%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,114,808 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 153,465 · 35,558 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 199,308
- Paid Google search
- 8 searches its ads show for, about 107 clicks and $683 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 5 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 4 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
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 25 | 22 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 8 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-08 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-01You say no five questions can help you spot overlooked talent blog
- 2026-08-30Why quality hire starts day one blog
- 2026-07-23Cisco talent bridge candidate user guide blog
- 2026-07-23Cisco talent bridge recruiter user guide blog
- 2026-07-15Cisco talent bridge candidate demo blog
- 2026-07-15Cisco talent bridge recruiter demo blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cisco.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.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cisco Catalyst by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cisco Catalyst 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, 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.