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Cisco Nexus 9000

5Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

5 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cisco Nexus 9000 was named 4 times in Data center networking, where Arista Networks led with 27%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market118 of 165

under the label threshold

Enterprise87 of 125

under the label threshold

In data center networking · 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 Cisco Nexus 9000 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
Data center networking	Network and edge	0%	118 of 165	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cisco Nexus 9000 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 Nexus 9000 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“Cisco Nexus remains a solid but more expensive choice” Kimi K2 · Data center networking · direct prompt · alternative

“You already rely on Cisco skills, support, or tooling” GPT-6 Luna · Data center networking · direct 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.

“Trade-off is premium pricing and licensing complexity: Cisco is typically 20 to 40 percent more expensive than competitors.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Data center networking · direct prompt · soft negative

“Cisco Nexus 9000 is the usual data-center choice, but it is often not the cheapest path for a budget-conscious build” GPT-5.4 mini · Data center networking · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cisco Nexus 9000, 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 Nexus 9000 was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arista Networks2 of 51Not among the top eight

Arista EOS1 of 51Not among the top eight

HPE Aruba EdgeConnect1 of 51Not among the top eight

HPE Aruba Networking CX Series1 of 51Not among the top eight

Juniper’s QFX-based data center fabric, managed with Apstra1 of 51Not among the top eight

Arista EOS-based leaf-spine design1 of 50Not among the top eight

Arista Networks 7000 Series1 of 50Not among the top eight

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric1 of 50Not among the top eight

CloudVision1 of 50Not among the top eight

HPE Aruba CX1 of 50Not 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 Nexus 9000. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Cisco Nexus 9000 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cisco.comYour site5

arista.com3

gartner.com3

digitalocean.com2

juniper.net2

peerspot.com2

technologymatch.com2

techversions.com2

thenetworkdna.com2

wifihotshots.com2

Twenty of the twenty-five domain citations in answers naming Cisco Nexus 9000 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/data-center-switching3

cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/cloud-networking/index.html2

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/cloud-migration-tools2

technologymatch.com/blog/cisco-vs-aruba-vs-arista-which-network-infrastructure-vendor-shou2

techversions.com/ebooks/analyst-report-2024-gigaom-data-center-switching-radar2

thenetworkdna.com/2026/04/cisco-vs-arista-switching-complete.html2

adhdecode.com/networking/network-hardware/cisco-juniper-arista-vendor-comparison1

aricoma.com/getattachment/7694c129-0dbd-4be8-808e-52f78d35867c/Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise_1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cisco Nexus 9000

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cisco Nexus 9000; a claim can dispute any of them.

Cisco Nexus 9000 + NX-OS 1Cisco Nexus 9000 / Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric 1Cisco Nexus 9000/3000 Series 1

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The company

Cisco is the company behind Cisco Nexus 9000.

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On record

Company records

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cisco Nexus 9000 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cisco Nexus 9000 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 Nexus 9000, 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.