Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 38 → 15 of 69
HPE · 4 categories · RankedHPE Aruba EdgeConnect
105Judge labels
7First choices
16Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in SD-WAN for enterprise buyers
Rank 5 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 13% of its 30 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of HPE Aruba EdgeConnect →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business16 of 71
0%11 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market5 of 73
4%30 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise4 of 52
4%37 labels
accepted challenger
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 HPE Aruba EdgeConnect 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | Network and edge | 4% | 5 of 73 | 13% | 30 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Data center networking | Network and edge | 2% | 15 of 165 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27% | |
| Network access control | Network and edge | 0% | 110 of 111 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Portnox Cloud at 35% | |
| SASE platforms | Network and edge | 0% | 32 of 45 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cato Networks at 35% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SD-WAN · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 of 67, unchanged
Enterprise▼−7Since September 2026: 7% → 0%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 4 → 7 of 48
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | 2% | 5% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 of 73, unchanged |
| Data center networking | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 15 of 165, unchanged |
| NAC | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 110 of 111, unchanged |
| SASE | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 32 of 45, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated HPE Aruba EdgeConnect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated HPE Aruba EdgeConnect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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
Direct22 labels4
Paraphrase9 labels1
Comparative29 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained11 labels1
Scale-constrained16 labels1
Negative18 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative105 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 9 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.
“the analyst consensus points to HPE Aruba Networking as the best balance of reliability, cost and licensing” Muse Glimmer 30B · Data center networking · direct prompt · first choice
“Instead, consider platforms like Fortinet Secure SD-WAN or Aruba EdgeConnect” Mistral Small · SD-WAN · negative prompt · first choice
“Similar capabilities, also recommended for mid-market” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · direct prompt · first choice
“VMware SD-WAN and Aruba EdgeConnect are top choices” Mistral Small · SD-WAN · direct prompt · first choice
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 Aruba/HP software (especially older ClearPass releases or any configuration that has been "rendered useless" by endless exceptions).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NAC · negative prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid: Silver Peak (now Aruba/HPE) - Not recommended for mid-market due to high price point and locked hardware” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“HPE's history of discontinuing products or rebranding means that an SD-WAN controller you love today could become unsupported” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
“Historically, Silver Peak (now part of HPE) and Citrix/VMware SD-WAN solutions had critical vulnerabilities” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, over the 104 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HPE Aruba EdgeConnect was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, over the 104 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HPE Aruba EdgeConnect was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 HPE Aruba EdgeConnect. 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 95 of the 104 answers that named HPE Aruba EdgeConnect and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cisco.com56
guideflow.com55
fortinet.com33
gartner.com33
hpe.com29
peerspot.com28
datacipher.com27
g2.com24
interfacesystems.com24
it-ai-index.com21
330 of the 330 domain citations in answers naming HPE Aruba EdgeConnect came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
arubanetworks.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect takes 4% of first choices and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN takes 50%.ShowHide
Search and answers
arubanetworks.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect takes 4% of first choices and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN takes 50%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “sd-wan platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “sd-wan platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 20 a month (“hpe aruba edgeconnect”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 10 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,865 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 769 · 74 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 11,070
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 5 of 73 in SD-WAN
Segment leader
50%
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 104 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 95 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on arubanetworks.com
9,922
subdomains included
Content
203
counted in the table below
Documentation
9,716
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 96 | 0 | 2022-07-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 51 | undated | SD-WAN | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 28 | 0 | 2022-08-01 | SD-WAN, SASE | |
| Report or ebook | 12 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 11 | undated | |||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2022-08-01What is asymmetric routing and does clearpass allow asymmetric routing glossary or explainer
- 2022-08-01What is the default tls version for clearpass version 69 onwards glossary or explainer
- 2022-07-01Aruba os cx switch acl logging output details vs summary comparison
- 2022-07-01What is the maximum number of overlay tunnel ssid that could be created in an aos 10x deployment glossary or explainer
- 2022-07-01What is the maximum number of overlay tunnel ssid that could be created in an aos 10x deployment glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page arubanetworks.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 October 5, 2026.
Names read as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect; a claim can dispute any of them.
Aruba EdgeConnect 5HPE Aruba 5Silver Peak 4Aruba 3HPE Aruba Networking 3HPE Aruba EdgeConnect (formerly Silver Peak) 2Aruba (HPE) 1Aruba (by Hewlett Packard Enterprise) 1Aruba EdgeConnect (formerly Silver Peak) 1Aruba/HP software 1HPE (Aruba) 1HPE (Aruba/Silver Peak) 1HPE Aruba (EdgeConnect SD-WAN, formerly Silver Peak) 1HPE Aruba (EdgeConnect) 1HPE Aruba Networking (formerly Silver Peak) 1Silver Peak (now part of Aruba) 1
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The company
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- Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
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- where HPE Aruba EdgeConnect 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 HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, 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;
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