Every category where a model named Cisco Meraki 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
Network access control	Network and edge	0%	33 of 111	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Portnox Cloud at 35%
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	58 of 83	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 73%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
SASE platforms	Network and edge	0%	18 of 45	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cato Networks at 35%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cisco Meraki 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 Meraki 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	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	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	1	1	1	3
Kimi K2	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
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

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase8 labels1

Comparative6 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained8 labels1

Negative11 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative44 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 6 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.

“Solutions like Aruba Central or Meraki (Cisco) that manage access via the cloud.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · NAC · negative prompt · first choice

“The Best for Simplicity & Management: Cisco Meraki” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SASE · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Meraki, over the 44 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Meraki was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ubiquiti UniFi18 of 444Not among the top eight

Fortinet7 of 441Not among the top eight

Portnox Cloud6 of 445Not among the top eight

Fortinet FortiGate6 of 444Not among the top eight

Arista Networks6 of 441Not among the top eight

Aruba Instant On6 of 440Not among the top eight

Cisco ISE6 of 440Not among the top eight

VMware NSX6 of 440Not among the top eight

Cloudflare One5 of 443Not among the top eight

Cisco Nexus4 of 441Not 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 Meraki. 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 32 of the 44 answers that named Cisco Meraki and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

us.fitgap.com16

g2.com14

peerspot.com12

cisco.comYour site11

cyberpress.org7

esecurityplanet.com7

sourceforge.net7

cybersecuritynews.com6

reddit.com6

v2cloud.com6

Eighty-one of the ninety-two domain citations in answers naming Cisco Meraki came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

us.fitgap.com/search/data-center-networking-solutions/small-business11

cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/partners/downloads/lean-ai-ready-data-center-blueprint.pdf6

v2cloud.com/blog/software-defined-networking-solutions6

capterra.com/network-access-control-software/s/small-businesses5

cyberpress.org/nac-solutions-by-business-size5

kiddofspeed.com/best-enterprise-network-switches-brands5

sourceforge.net/software/data-center-networking5

g2.com/categories/data-center-networking4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Cisco Meraki 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: 12,100 a month (“cisco meraki”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1,252 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 111 in NAC

Segment leader

35%

Portnox Cloud

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 44 answers
Its own site cited: in 32 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 Meraki

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

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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 Meraki.

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On record

Company records

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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 Meraki'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 Meraki, 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 Meraki by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cisco Meraki 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 Meraki, 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.