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Riverbed SteelConnect CX

4Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

4 / 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. Riverbed SteelConnect CX 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 businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market161 of 165

under the label threshold

Enterprise124 of 125

under the label threshold

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 Riverbed SteelConnect CX 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%	161 of 165	100%	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 Riverbed SteelConnect CX 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 Riverbed SteelConnect CX across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
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	0	0
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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 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.

“stopped selling new subscriptions in 2020 and "should not appear on any current shortlist," so it is a clear avoid category” Perplexity Sonar · Data center networking · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Riverbed SteelConnect CX, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Riverbed SteelConnect CX was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Arista Networks4 of 41Not among the top eight

Juniper Networks3 of 41Not among the top eight

Cisco2 of 40Not among the top eight

Masergy2 of 40Not among the top eight

Ruckus2 of 40Not among the top eight

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN2 of 40Not among the top eight

Apstra1 of 40Not among the top eight

Big Switch Networks1 of 40Not among the top eight

Brocade1 of 40Not among the top eight

Cisco ACI1 of 40Not 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 Riverbed SteelConnect CX. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named Riverbed SteelConnect CX and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

v2cloud.com4

b2bsalescafe.wordpress.com3

juniper.net3

servicenetwork.org3

cisco.com2

databank.com2

g2.com2

itechguides.com2

linkedin.com2

naasadvisor.com2

Twenty-five of the twenty-five domain citations in answers naming Riverbed SteelConnect CX came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

v2cloud.com/blog/software-defined-networking-solutions4

b2bsalescafe.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-data-cent3

servicenetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/magic_quadrant_for_data_cent_networking_27843

g2.com/categories/data-center-networking/enterprise2

itechguides.com/best/data-center-networking-solutions2

juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/additional-resources/1600074-en.pdf2

naasadvisor.com/network-hardware-shortages2

reddit.com/r/networking/comments/194xev4/data_center_switching2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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The company

Riverbed is the company behind Riverbed SteelConnect CX.

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On record

Company records

Also from Riverbed: Riverbed Aternity, Riverbed SteelConnect

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Customers named: Schneider Electric
Not stated on the pages read: Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Riverbed SteelConnect CX's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: riverbed.com/product-steelhead-ja, riverbed.com/product-steelhead-saas-ja, riverbed.com/product-steelhead-cloud-ja, riverbed.com/products/steelhead-saas, riverbed.com/products/steelhead-cloud. 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 Riverbed SteelConnect CX'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 Riverbed SteelConnect CX, 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 Riverbed SteelConnect CX by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Riverbed SteelConnect CX 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 Riverbed SteelConnect CX, 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.