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Index › Vendors › FatPipe SD-WAN · September 2026 Edition

FatPipe · 1 category · Named, not ranked

FatPipe SD-WAN

7Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. FatPipe SD-WAN was named 5 times in SD-WAN, where Fortinet Secure SD-WAN led with 41%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business39 of 53

under the label threshold

Mid-market37 of 53

under the label threshold

Enterprise26 of 37

under the label threshold

In sd-wan · 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 FatPipe SD-WAN 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
SD-WAN	Network and edge	0%	37 of 53	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN at 41%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for FatPipe SD-WAN yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated FatPipe SD-WAN across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	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 4.1 Fast	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

“FatPipe often ranks very high in mid-market satisfaction scores” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · direct prompt · alternative

“FatPipe SD-WAN (Top-Rated in Midmarket-Specific Reviews)” Grok 4.1 Fast · SD-WAN · 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.

“FatPipe weak on cloud ... Avoid for 100+ sites or mission-critical enterprise.” Grok 4.1 Fast · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative

“they have struggled with innovation and have fallen far behind in cloud/SASE integration” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as FatPipe SD-WAN, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and FatPipe SD-WAN was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN6 of 71Not in the top three

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN6 of 70Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN5 of 73Not in the top three

HPE Aruba EdgeConnect5 of 70Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN5 of 70Not in the top three

Barracuda4 of 70Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN4 of 70Not in the top three

Cradlepoint4 of 70Not in the top three

Peplink4 of 70Not in the top three

Riverbed SteelConnect4 of 70Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 FatPipe SD-WAN. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 7 of the 7 answers that named FatPipe SD-WAN and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com6

dcconnectglobal.com4

g2.com4

myhospitalnow.com4

rfp.wiki4

sdxcentral.com4

infotech.com3

interfacesystems.com3

netify.co.uk3

networkworld.com3

Thirty-eight of the thirty-eight domain citations in answers naming FatPipe SD-WAN came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan6

dcconnectglobal.com/sd-wan-providers-compared-20264

myhospitalnow.com/blog/top-10-sd-wan-management-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison-24

sdxcentral.com/news/market-visibility-product-gaps-confound-sd-wan-losers4

g2.com/categories/sd-wan3

interfacesystems.com/blog/top-sd-wan-vendors3

networkworld.com/article/970766/5-sd-wan-gotchas-to-avoid.html3

palomarr.com/nw/sd-wan/top-companies3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as FatPipe SD-WAN

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

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at fatpipe.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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