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Juniper Apstra / Contrail

2Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

1 / 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Juniper Apstra / Contrail was named 1 time 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 business165 of 170

under the label threshold

Mid-market104 of 165

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Juniper Apstra / Contrail 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%	104 of 165	0%	1	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 Juniper Apstra / Contrail 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 Juniper Apstra / Contrail across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Mention	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	0	0
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	0	0
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 Juniper Apstra / Contrail, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Juniper Apstra / Contrail was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arista Networks2 of 20Not among the top eight

Cisco ACI2 of 20Not among the top eight

VMware NSX2 of 20Not among the top eight

Cisco Nexus with standard NX-OS1 of 21Not among the top eight

Dell EMC PowerSwitch1 of 20Not among the top eight

HPE1 of 20Not among the top eight

MikroTik CRS Series1 of 20Not among the top eight

NVIDIA Cumulus Linux1 of 20Not among the top eight

SONiC1 of 20Not among the top eight

Spectrum Business1 of 20Not 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 Juniper Apstra / Contrail. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Juniper Apstra / Contrail and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

arista.com2

g2.com2

blog.internetport.com1

blogs.cisco.com1

cisco.com1

computerweekly.com1

datamation.com1

docs.nvidia.com1

esim.holafly.com1

featuredcustomers.com1

Twelve of the twelve domain citations in answers naming Juniper Apstra / Contrail came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

g2.com/categories/data-center-networking2

arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Whitepapers/Cloud_Networking__Scaling_Out_Data_Center_Networks.1

arista.com/en/products/eos1

blog.internetport.com/blog/data-center-connectivity-options-for-smbs-in-20261

blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/aci-top-5-myths1

blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/customers-speak-out-on-aci-speed-simplicity-security1

cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

juniper.net is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Juniper Apstra / Contrail 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”

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not in the top ten

Position for “data center networking platforms”

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not in the top ten

Its company's site: juniper.net shared with Juniper's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 267,308 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 19,643 · 2,261 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 21,426
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

10 ads · 6 text, 4 video · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2024, as Juniper Networks, Inc., verified.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 104 of 165 in data center networking

Segment leader

27%

Arista Networks

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 2 answers
Its own site cited: in 2 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

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The company

Juniper is the company behind Juniper Apstra / Contrail.

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On record

Company records

Also from Juniper: Juniper Apstra, Juniper Contrail, Juniper Junos, Juniper QFX, Juniper QFX Series, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Juniper QFX/EX

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Juniper Apstra / Contrail's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Juniper Apstra / Contrail, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Juniper Apstra / Contrail by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Juniper Apstra / Contrail 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 Juniper Apstra / Contrail, 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.