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 43 → 47 of 69
Riverbed · 1 category · Named, not rankedRiverbed SteelConnect
8Judge labels
0First choices
7Negative labels
7 / 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
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Riverbed SteelConnect was named 5 times in SD-WAN, where Fortinet Secure SD-WAN led with 50%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business48 of 71
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market73 of 73
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise49 of 52
0%2 labels
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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | Network and edge | 0% | 73 of 73 | 100% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN at 50% | =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, Riverbed SteelConnect held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SD-WAN · 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 52 → 65 of 67
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 23 → 41 of 48
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | 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 52 → 73 of 73 |
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 Riverbed SteelConnect 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 Riverbed SteelConnect 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 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 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.
“you should entirely avoid these legacy platforms... reached their End of Support (EOS) milestone in August 2025” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
“vendors (like some Riverbed approaches) that retrofit SD-WAN capabilities onto aging hardware architectures ... often deliver: Poorer performance” Kimi K2 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
“consistently ranked among the worst in all five use cases” Muse Glimmer 30B · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
“their transition to cloud networking has been rocky” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Riverbed SteelConnect, over the 8 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Riverbed SteelConnect, over the 8 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.
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 Riverbed SteelConnect. 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 7 of the 8 answers that named Riverbed SteelConnect and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
gartner.com4
guideflow.com4
it-ai-index.com4
reddit.com4
sdxcentral.com4
143485449.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net3
channelfutures.com3
delloro.com3
scribd.com3
crn.com2
Thirty-four of the thirty-four domain citations in answers naming Riverbed SteelConnect came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
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 3Riverbed SteelConnect / SteelHead-SD 1Riverbed/Nuage 1
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The company
Riverbed is the company behind Riverbed SteelConnect.ShowHide
The company
Riverbed is the company behind Riverbed SteelConnect.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Riverbed
- Riverbed Aternity, Riverbed SteelConnect CX
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Customers named
- Securities Trading Company
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Riverbed SteelConnect's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: riverbed.com/blogs/sd-wan-cloud-capabilities-riverbed-netprofiler, riverbed.com/blogs/closing-sd-wan-visibility-gap-riverbed-netprofiler, riverbed.com/resource/solution-brief/sd-wan-observability, riverbed.com/resource/video/better-together-sd-wan-app-acceleration-video, riverbed.com/resource/solution-brief/total-sd-wan-visibility-with-riverbed-netprofiler. 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'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, 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 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Riverbed SteelConnect 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, 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.