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Index › Vendors › Riverbed SteelConnect · September 2026 Edition

Riverbed · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Riverbed SteelConnect

4Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Riverbed SteelConnect was named 2 times 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 business45 of 53

under the label threshold

Mid-market53 of 53

under the label threshold

Enterprise28 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 Riverbed SteelConnect 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%	53 of 53	100%	2	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 Riverbed SteelConnect 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 Riverbed SteelConnect 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	1	1
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

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.

“Smaller/Niche Players Lagging in Enterprise Scale (e.g., ... Riverbed SteelConnect)” Grok 4.1 Fast · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative

“They lack the modern SASE ecosystem and have low customer interest in inquiries.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Riverbed SteelConnect, 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 was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN4 of 41Not in the top three

Barracuda4 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN4 of 40Not in the top three

Cradlepoint4 of 40Not in the top three

FatPipe SD-WAN4 of 40Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN4 of 40Not in the top three

Peplink4 of 40Not in the top three

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN4 of 40Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN3 of 41Not in the top three

Nuage3 of 40Not 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 Riverbed SteelConnect. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named Riverbed SteelConnect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dcconnectglobal.com4

sdxcentral.com4

g2.com3

gartner.com3

networkworld.com3

reddit.com3

rfp.wiki3

tatacommunications.com3

techtarget.com3

bankinfosecurity.com2

Thirty-one of the thirty-one domain citations in answers naming Riverbed SteelConnect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dcconnectglobal.com/sd-wan-providers-compared-20264

sdxcentral.com/news/market-visibility-product-gaps-confound-sd-wan-losers4

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan3

networkworld.com/article/970766/5-sd-wan-gotchas-to-avoid.html3

reddit.com/r/networking/comments/f5qc6n/sdwan_failures3

tatacommunications.com/hubfs/47271964/TaCO-2024/sdwan/doc/omdia-five-sd-wan-deployment-mis3

bankinfosecurity.com/gartner-sd-wan-magic-quadrant-story-a-201362

g2.com/categories/sd-wan2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Riverbed SteelConnect

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

Riverbed (SteelConnect) 1

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