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1 category · Named, not ranked

Dell PowerSwitch

10Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

7 / 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Dell PowerSwitch was named 2 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 business38 of 170

under the label threshold

Mid-market37 of 165

under the label threshold

Enterprise42 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 Dell PowerSwitch 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%	37 of 165	0%	2	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 Dell PowerSwitch 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 Dell PowerSwitch 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	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 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.

“Dell PowerSwitch for high-density, low-latency connectivity at competitive prices.” Mistral Small · Data center networking · budget 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 Dell PowerSwitch, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dell PowerSwitch was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arista Networks4 of 101Not among the top eight

Cisco Nexus3 of 101Not among the top eight

Juniper Networks3 of 100Not among the top eight

Ubiquiti UniFi3 of 100Not among the top eight

Aruba Instant On2 of 101Not among the top eight

Cisco Meraki2 of 101Not among the top eight

Cisco ACI2 of 100Not among the top eight

HPE Aruba2 of 100Not among the top eight

HPE Aruba CX2 of 100Not among the top eight

Juniper QFX2 of 100Not 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 Dell PowerSwitch. 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 9 of the 10 answers that named Dell PowerSwitch and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dell.comYour site7

cisco.com6

gartner.com5

reddit.com5

alibaba.com4

cloudswit.ch4

digitechbytes.com4

g2.com4

peerspot.com4

hpe.com3

Thirty-nine of the forty-six domain citations in answers naming Dell PowerSwitch came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dell.com/en-us/shop/storage-servers-and-networking-for-business/sf/networking-data-center-6

alibaba.com/product-insights/huawei-switching-platform.html4

cloudswit.ch/blogs/data-center-switch-buying-guide4

digitechbytes.com/vetted/best-data-center-switch4

cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/cloud-networking-switches/index.html3

cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/switches/index.html3

g2.com/categories/networking-hardware3

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

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

dell.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Dell PowerSwitch takes 0% of first choices and Arista Networks takes 27%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “data center switching platform”

Position for “data center networking platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 140 a month (“dell powerswitch”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 11 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 13,697,880 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 395,731 · 66,192 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 134,964
Paid Google search: 48 searches its ads show for, about 894 clicks and $10,867 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

63+ ads · 62 text, 1 image · 63 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as DELL USA L.P., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 62 in the year, 1 before. 57 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 37 of 165 in data center networking

Segment leader

27%

Arista Networks

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 10 answers
Its own site cited: in 9 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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Addresses on dell.com

164

subdomains included

Content

154

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Case study	77	76	2026-09-25
Glossary or explainer	47	47	2026-09-28
Blog	22	20	2026-09-28
News or press	3	undated
Conference or event	2	1	2026-09-24
Report or ebook	2	1	2026-09-21
Webinar or virtual event	1	1	2026-09-16

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How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page dell.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 Dell PowerSwitch by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Dell PowerSwitch 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 Dell PowerSwitch, 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.