Cisco · 1 category · Named, not rankedCisco Systems
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data center networking | Network and edge | 0% | 135 of 165 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cisco Systems 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 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
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.
“avoid full Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure). ACI is far too complex, rigid, and resource-heavy for a mid-market team” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data center networking · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco Systems, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Systems 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 10 of the 10 answers that named Cisco Systems and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-three of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Cisco Systems came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Follow Cisco Systems
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Cisco is the company behind Cisco Systems.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
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cisco’s global career‑support platform designed to bridge the gap between skilled talent and Cisco’s global network of employers—turning potential into professional opportunity.
- For
- Candidates with relevant skills, training, certifications, or experience, including technical, non-technical, and Cisco aligned backgrounds; and Cisco’s Employer Ecosystem, including registered Channel and Distribution partners, suppliers, customers, and various external organizations.
- Price stated
- No. Talent Bridge is a Cisco-sponsored benefit provided at no cost to candidates and members of Cisco’s Employer Ecosystem. talentbridge.cisco.com/cisco-talentbridge-about-us-faq
- Free plan or trial
- No. Talent Bridge is a Cisco-sponsored benefit provided at no cost to candidates and members of Cisco’s Employer Ecosystem. talentbridge.cisco.com/cisco-talentbridge-about-us-faq
- Certifications
- CCNA certificationCCNP Collaboration (or equivalent hands-on experience)
- Hosting
- Philippines
- Customers named
- Fortune 500 client
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations
What Cisco Systems's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: talentbridge.cisco.com/cisco-talentbridge-about-us-faq, talentbridge.cisco.com/cisco-talent-bridge-privacy-statement, talentbridge.cisco.com/organization/cisco, talentbridge.cisco.com/job/cisco-sd-wan-engineer-56524, talentbridge.cisco.com/job/cisco-uc-voice-engineer-56561. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Systems'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 Systems, 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 Systems by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cisco Systems 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 Systems, 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.