Cisco · 1 category · RankedCisco Nexus
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data center networking | Network and edge | 2% | 10 of 165 | 19% | 16 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cisco Nexus 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Cisco holds the largest overall market share (~18-76% in segments)... Cisco for enterprise stability” Grok 4.1 Fast · Data center networking · comparative prompt · first choice
“the strongest default choice is usually Cisco Nexus if you want the safest all-around platform” Perplexity Sonar · Data center networking · direct prompt · first choice
“If you need enterprise support and can stretch slightly: Get a used/refurbished Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Data center networking · budget prompt · alternative
“Safest, most proven choice. ... Cons: Premium pricing and complex licensing.” Grok 4.1 Fast · 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.
“Specific examples to avoid for a new build: Cisco Nexus 6000, whose support ended April 30, 2022” GPT-6 Luna · Data center networking · negative prompt · hard negative
“buying brand-new, top-tier platforms (like Cisco Nexus) with heavy multi-year licensing and support contracts is usually out of the question” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data center networking · budget prompt · soft negative
“Significantly cheaper than big names (e.g., Cisco Nexus 9300 equivalents discounted 80%+ on resellers” Grok 4.1 Fast · Data center networking · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco Nexus, over the 48 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Nexus 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 46 of the 48 answers that named Cisco Nexus and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
133 of the 165 domain citations in answers naming Cisco Nexus came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Cisco Nexus stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,300 a month (“cisco nexus”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 612 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- First choices
- 8 across its categories
- Named in
- 48 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 46 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 Nexus
Follow Cisco Nexus
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 Nexus.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company records- Also from Cisco
- Cisco ACE, Cisco ACI, Cisco ACI / Tetration, Cisco AI Defense, Cisco ASA/Firepower, Cisco AnyConnect, Cisco AppDynamics, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and 68 more
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 Nexus'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 Nexus, 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 Cisco Nexus by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cisco Nexus 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, 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.