Every category where a model named Juniper Apstra 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%	2 of 165	0%	9	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 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 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	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase11 labels5

Comparative8 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 6 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.

“managed by a solution like Arista CloudVision or Juniper Apstra” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Data center networking · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“with Juniper Apstra + EVPN-VXLAN as the strongest default choice” Perplexity Sonar · Data center networking · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Top Recommendation: Juniper Apstra (with Juniper/HPE switches)” Kimi K2 · Data center networking · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“If you have a mixed-vendor environment, Juniper Apstra is the abstraction layer of choice.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Data center networking · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Juniper Apstra, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Juniper Apstra was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cisco ACI15 of 302Not among the top eight

VMware NSX11 of 300Not among the top eight

Arista Networks8 of 304Not among the top eight

Arista CloudVision8 of 301Not among the top eight

Cisco Catalyst Center6 of 302Not among the top eight

SONiC5 of 301Not among the top eight

Cisco Nexus4 of 301Not among the top eight

Arista EOS + CloudVision3 of 301Not among the top eight

Arista EOS3 of 300Not among the top eight

Cisco Meraki3 of 300Not 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. 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 26 of the 30 answers that named Juniper Apstra and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cisco.com17

juniper.netYour site14

arista.com12

gartner.com9

g2.com7

hpe.com7

networkworld.com7

peerspot.com7

sourceforge.net7

us.fitgap.com7

Eighty of the ninety-four domain citations in answers naming Juniper Apstra came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

itential.com/resource/guide/multi-vendor-orchestration-platforms6

us.fitgap.com/search/data-center-networking-solutions/small-business6

v2cloud.com/blog/software-defined-networking-solutions6

wifihotshots.com/manufacturer-comparisons/dc-fabric-controllers6

cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/partners/downloads/lean-ai-ready-data-center-blueprint.pdf5

cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infr4

itechguides.com/best/data-center-networking-solutions4

juniper.net/us/en/solutions/data-center/network-fabrics.html4

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 takes 7% 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

Searches for its name, Google: 210 a month (“juniper apstra”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 6 a month
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 2 of 165 in data center networking

Segment leader

27%

Arista Networks

First choices: 5 across its categories
Named in: 30 answers
Its own site cited: in 26 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.

Names read as Juniper Apstra

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

Juniper Apstra (HPE) 1Juniper Apstra + EVPN-VXLAN 1

Follow Juniper Apstra

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Juniper is the company behind Juniper Apstra.

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On record

Company records

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

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Data center automation
juniper.net/us/en/dm/apstras-demo-time-voyagers.html
For: datacenteroperators
juniper.net/nl/nl/dm/juniper-apstra-vs-cisco-data-center-solutions.html
Customers named: Vodafone Turkeyfirst-bankRaiffeisen InformatikT SystemsIndonetAtosAdvania
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Juniper Apstra's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: community.juniper.net/discussion/juniper-apstra, community.juniper.net/discussion/juniper-apstra-2, community.juniper.net/discussion/juniper-apstra-1, juniper.net/us/en/dm/apstras-demo-time-voyagers.html, juniper.net/nl/nl/dm/juniper-apstra-vs-cisco-data-center-solutions.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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'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, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

where Juniper Apstra 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, 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 Juniper Apstra 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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Juniper Apstra 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/juniper-apstra--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.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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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/juniper-apstra--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>

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.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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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/juniper-apstra--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.