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Juniper/Mist · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Juniper Mist Access Assurance

16Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

8 / 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

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Juniper Mist Access Assurance was named 6 times in NAC, where Portnox Cloud led with 35%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business24 of 91

under the label threshold

Mid-market26 of 111

under the label threshold

Enterprise17 of 95

under the label threshold

In nac · 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 Mist Access Assurance 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
Network access control	Network and edge	0%	26 of 111	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Portnox Cloud at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Juniper Mist Access Assurance 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 Mist Access Assurance across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	1
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 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.

“Best For: Organizations already utilizing Juniper Mist cloud-managed networking.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NAC · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best utilized if you are already invested in Juniper Mist network hardware.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NAC · scale prompt · alternative

“Best if you're already using Juniper/Mist networking infrastructure” MiniMax M2.5 · NAC · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“A strong candidate for Mist-oriented networks.” GPT-6 Luna · NAC · 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.

“Still maturing compared to ISE/ClearPass, most compelling in Juniper environments” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NAC · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Juniper Mist Access Assurance, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Juniper Mist Access Assurance was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Portnox Cloud12 of 165Not among the top eight

Fortinet FortiNAC10 of 160Not among the top eight

Forescout9 of 160Not among the top eight

Cisco ISE7 of 161Not among the top eight

Cisco Identity Services Engine6 of 166Not among the top eight

HPE Aruba ClearPass3 of 161Not among the top eight

FortiNAC3 of 160Not among the top eight

Portnox Cloud NAC2 of 161Not among the top eight

Aruba ClearPass2 of 160Not among the top eight

HPE Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager2 of 160Not 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 Mist Access Assurance. 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 14 of the 16 answers that named Juniper Mist Access Assurance and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

portnox.com12

cyberpress.org10

cybersecuritynews.com8

gartner.com6

purple.ai6

us.fitgap.com6

virima.com6

cloudnuro.ai5

elisity.com5

fortinet.com5

Sixty-nine of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming Juniper Mist Access Assurance came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/nac-solutions-by-business-size10

cybersecuritynews.com/best-nac-solutions8

portnox.com/cybersecurity-101/access-control/top-nac-solutions8

gartner.com/reviews/market/network-access-control6

virima.com/blog/best-network-access-control-solutions6

cloudnuro.ai/blog/top-10-network-access-control-nac-solutions-for-zero-trust-implementatio5

purple.ai/en-us/blogs/best-network-access-control5

us.fitgap.com/search/network-access-control-software5

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 Mist Access Assurance takes 0% of first choices and Portnox Cloud takes 35%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “network access control solution”

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not in the top ten

Position for “network access control solutions”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 50 a month (“juniper mist access assurance”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 12 a month
Its company's site: juniper.net shared with Juniper/Mist'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 26 of 111 in NAC

Segment leader

35%

Portnox Cloud

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 16 answers
Its own site cited: in 14 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 Mist Access Assurance

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

Juniper Mist 1

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The company

Juniper/Mist is the company behind Juniper Mist Access Assurance.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Secure network access control for wired and wireless networks with identity-based Zero Trust policies, posture checks, and integration with endpoint and identity systems.
juniper.net/fr/fr/products/cloud-services/access-assurance.html
For: organizations of all types and sizes
juniper.net/fr/fr/products/cloud-services/access-assurance.html
Hosting: global points of presence
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, customers

What Juniper Mist Access Assurance's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: community.juniper.net/discussion/access-assurance-eduroam, community.juniper.net/discussion/mist-access-assurance-ga-or-still-beta, community.juniper.net/discussion/juniper-access-assurance-nac-integration-with-cisco-switch, community.juniper.net/discussion/study-results-new-network-access-control-solution-powered-by-mist-ai, juniper.net/fr/fr/products/cloud-services/access-assurance.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 Mist Access Assurance'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 Mist Access Assurance, 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 Mist Access Assurance by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Juniper Mist Access Assurance 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 Mist Access Assurance, 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.