Every category where a model named HPE Aruba Networking CX Series 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	7%	3 of 165	0%	3	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 HPE Aruba Networking CX Series 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 HPE Aruba Networking CX Series across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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 labels3

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“Start with HPE Aruba CX for mid-market B2B—it's frequently highlighted for 100-1000 port environments with TCO savings” Grok 4.1 Fast · Data center networking · direct prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, I'd recommend HPE Aruba Networking CX Series” Kimi K2 · Data center networking · direct prompt · first choice

“Top Recommendation: HPE Aruba Networking CX Series” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Data center networking · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as HPE Aruba Networking CX Series, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HPE Aruba Networking CX Series was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arista Networks1 of 30Not among the top eight

Arista Networks 7000 Series1 of 30Not among the top eight

Cisco Catalyst 9200/9300 Series1 of 30Not among the top eight

Cisco Nexus1 of 30Not among the top eight

Cisco Nexus 90001 of 30Not among the top eight

Cisco Nexus 9300 Series1 of 30Not among the top eight

Dell PowerSwitch S Series1 of 30Not among the top eight

Juniper Networks1 of 30Not among the top eight

Juniper QFX Series1 of 30Not 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 HPE Aruba Networking CX Series. 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 3 of the 3 answers that named HPE Aruba Networking CX Series and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

buy.hpe.com3

scribd.com3

wifihotshots.com3

cisco.com2

digitechbytes.com2

g2.com2

gartner.com2

network-switch.com2

peerspot.com2

portal.gigaom.com2

No domain is on file for HPE Aruba Networking CX Series, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

scribd.com/document/940142141/ASA-2024-Data-Center-Switching3

cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/switches/index.html2

digitechbytes.com/vetted/best-data-center-switch2

g2.com/categories/networking-hardware2

gartner.com/reviews/market/data-center-switching2

peerspot.com/categories/ethernet-switches2

portal.gigaom.com/report/gigaom-radar-for-data-center-switching-42

techversions.com/ebooks/analyst-report-2024-gigaom-data-center-switching-radar2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as HPE Aruba Networking CX Series

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as HPE Aruba Networking CX Series; a claim can dispute any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for HPE Aruba Networking CX Series by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where HPE Aruba Networking CX Series 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 Networking CX Series, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where HPE Aruba Networking CX Series is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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HPE Aruba Networking CX Series is among the products AI models recommend first in Data center networking this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/data-center-networking/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/hpe-aruba-networking-cx-series--data-center-networking-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Data center networking, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data center networking standing, where the claim can be checked.

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/data-center-networking/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/hpe-aruba-networking-cx-series--data-center-networking-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Data center networking, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/data-center-networking/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/hpe-aruba-networking-cx-series--data-center-networking-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Data center networking, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data center networking standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.