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1 category · Named, not ranked

Nuage

3Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, 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. Nuage was named 1 time in SD-WAN, where Fortinet Secure SD-WAN led with 41%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business44 of 53

under the label threshold

Mid-market41 of 53

under the label threshold

Enterprise27 of 37

under the label threshold

In sd-wan · 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 Nuage 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
SD-WAN	Network and edge	0%	41 of 53	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN at 41%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Nuage yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Nuage across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	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	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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.

“they have poor market visibility and geographic reach” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

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

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN3 of 31Not in the top three

Barracuda3 of 30Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN3 of 30Not in the top three

Cradlepoint3 of 30Not in the top three

FatPipe SD-WAN3 of 30Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN3 of 30Not in the top three

Peplink3 of 30Not in the top three

Riverbed SteelConnect3 of 30Not in the top three

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN3 of 30Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN2 of 31Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Nuage. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 3 of the 3 answers that named Nuage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dcconnectglobal.com3

sdxcentral.com3

techtarget.com3

g2.com2

gartner.com2

linkedin.com2

networkworld.com2

reddit.com2

rfp.wiki2

servnetuk.com2

Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming Nuage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dcconnectglobal.com/sd-wan-providers-compared-20263

sdxcentral.com/news/market-visibility-product-gaps-confound-sd-wan-losers3

gartner.com/en/documents/58068152

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan2

networkworld.com/article/970766/5-sd-wan-gotchas-to-avoid.html2

reddit.com/r/networking/comments/f5qc6n/sdwan_failures2

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1kmlo45/i_hate_sdwan2

talkingpointz.com/sd-wans-the-bad-and-ugly2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Nuage

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

Nuage Networks (now Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise / Nokia) 1

Is this your product?

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

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at nuage.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.