Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 33 → 31 of 35
NetScout · 1 category · RankedNETSCOUT Arbor
20Judge labels
0First choices
6Negative labels
10 / 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.
Best standing
0% in DDoS for enterprise buyers
Rank 36 of 58 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 5 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business33 of 38
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market36 of 58
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise11 of 41
0%11 labels
accepted challenger
In ddos · 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 NETSCOUT Arbor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS protection | Network and edge | 0% | 36 of 58 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare at 82% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, NETSCOUT Arbor held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · DDoS · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 33 of 52, unchanged
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 9 → 11 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 33 → 36 of 58 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated NETSCOUT Arbor across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated NETSCOUT Arbor across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Direct5 labelsNone
Paraphrase7 labelsNone
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 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.
“Netscout Arbor — Better suited for ISPs and very large enterprises requiring on-premises hardware.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDoS · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as NETSCOUT Arbor, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NETSCOUT Arbor was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as NETSCOUT Arbor, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NETSCOUT Arbor was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 NETSCOUT Arbor. 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 18 of the 20 answers that named NETSCOUT Arbor and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
radware.com15
cybersecuritynews.com14
esecurityplanet.com13
expertinsights.com11
indusface.com9
gartner.com6
cloudflare.com5
flowtriq.com5
guideflow.com5
liquidweb.com5
Eighty-eight of the eighty-eight domain citations in answers naming NETSCOUT Arbor came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
netscout.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, NETSCOUT Arbor takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 82%.ShowHide
Search and answers
netscout.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, NETSCOUT Arbor takes 0% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 82%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ddos protection service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ddos protection services”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 50 a month (“netscout arbor”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 5 a month
- Its company's site
- netscout.com shared with NetScout's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 28,260 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,461 · 433 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 9,413
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 36 of 58 in ddos
Segment leader
82%
Cloudflare
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 20 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 18 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 NETSCOUT Arbor
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as NETSCOUT Arbor; a claim can dispute any of them.
NETSCOUT 1NetScout 1Netscout 1Netscout Arbor 1Netscout/Arbor 1
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The company
NetScout is the company behind NETSCOUT Arbor.ShowHide
The company
NetScout is the company behind NETSCOUT Arbor.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from NetScout
- NetScout nGeniusONE
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Defend Against DDoS Attacks
- For
- Service Providers and Large Networks; Enterprises
- Hosting
- AsiaEuropethe Americas
- Customers named
- Hunan MobileArelionGlobe Telecom
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications
What NETSCOUT Arbor's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: netscout.com/arbor, netscout.com/netscout-product-faq, netscout.com/arbor-solution-webinars, netscout.com/product/arbor-cloud, netscout.com/product/arbor-insight. 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 NETSCOUT Arbor'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 NETSCOUT Arbor, 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 NETSCOUT Arbor by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where NETSCOUT Arbor 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 NETSCOUT Arbor, 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.