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
SD-WAN	Network and edge	2%	5 of 53	6%	31	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for HPE Aruba EdgeConnect 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 HPE Aruba EdgeConnect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	3	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	1	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	2	0	4
Mistral Small	1	0	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	3	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	3	1	0	4
Kimi K2	0	1	1	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	0	2

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

Direct18 labels2

Paraphrase7 labels1

Comparative24 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained8 labelsNone

Negative13 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative74 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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 best SD-WAN platforms for mid-market B2B companies are VMware SD-WAN and Aruba EdgeConnect” Mistral Small · SD-WAN · direct prompt · first choice

“*Excellent for hybrid environments.* Extremely strong in WAN optimization and dynamic path control.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SD-WAN · scale prompt · alternative

“Aruba EdgeConnect (acquired Silver Peak)—all have mature ecosystems and integrated security.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · alternative

“Strong performance and enterprise features with relatively straightforward management.” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.

“Critical vulnerabilities were identified that could allow remote attackers to take full control” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

“Caution: Lower customer experience scores, limited vertical strategy” Kimi K2 · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, over the 73 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN69 of 7319Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN55 of 732Not in the top three

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN53 of 730Not in the top three

Versa Secure SD-WAN45 of 732Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN34 of 7311Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN29 of 736Not in the top three

Cisco24 of 737Not in the top three

Cato Networks14 of 731Not in the top three

Aryaka10 of 730Not in the top three

Juniper8 of 730Not 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 HPE Aruba EdgeConnect. 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 63 of the 73 answers that named HPE Aruba EdgeConnect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com48

zpesystems.com34

interfacesystems.com32

cisco.com29

digitalcarbon.io26

fortinet.com24

stlpartners.com23

techtarget.com23

hpe.com17

megaport.com17

273 of the 273 domain citations in answers naming HPE Aruba EdgeConnect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan45

zpesystems.com/sd-wan-leaders-zs33

interfacesystems.com/blog/top-sd-wan-vendors32

digitalcarbon.io/blog/sd-wan-leaders-in-the-202426

stlpartners.com/articles/network-innovation/sd-wan-providers23

megaport.com/blog/comparing-major-sd-wan-vendors17

technologymatch.com/blog/cisco-vs-fortinet-vs-palo-alto-vs-hpe-aruba-edgeconnect-an-sd-wan17

techtarget.com/it-infrastructure/tip/SD-WAN-comparison-chart-10-vendors-to-assess17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 6Aruba 3HPE Aruba 3HPE 2Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) 2Aruba (HPE) 1HPE (Aruba EdgeConnect) 1HPE (Aruba Networking) 1HPE (Aruba) 1HPE Aruba (EdgeConnect) 1HPE Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN 1HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect 1HPE EdgeConnect SD‑WAN 1Silver Peak 1

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