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Index › Products › TCPWave · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

TCPWave

11Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. TCPWave was named 4 times in DDI and IPAM, where BlueCat Micetro led with 15%. 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-market20 of 115

under the label threshold

Enterprise37 of 83

under the label threshold

In ddi and ipam · 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 TCPWave 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
DDI and IP address management	Network and edge	0%	20 of 115	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by BlueCat Micetro at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for TCPWave 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 TCPWave across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	2
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 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.

“TCPWave explicitly targets SMBs with hardware appliances (like the TW240) that are designed to be cost-effective” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DDI and IPAM · budget prompt · alternative

“Modern option with strong security features for tech-savvy teams” Grok 4.1 Fast · DDI and IPAM · direct prompt · alternative

“AI-driven threat detection and strong cloud integration.” Mistral Small · DDI and IPAM · comparative prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as TCPWave, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TCPWave was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BlueCat Integrity10 of 112Not among the top eight

EfficientIP SOLIDserver10 of 111Not among the top eight

Infoblox8 of 115Not among the top eight

SolarWinds IP Address Manager7 of 111Not among the top eight

FusionLayer4 of 110Not among the top eight

Men&Mice3 of 110Not among the top eight

Infoblox Universal DDI2 of 111Not among the top eight

Micetro2 of 111Not among the top eight

phpIPAM2 of 111Not among the top eight

BlueCat Micetro2 of 110Not 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 TCPWave. 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 11 of the 11 answers that named TCPWave and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bluecatnetworks.com8

infoblox.com8

blog.domotz.com6

devopsschool.com6

gartner.com5

peerspot.com5

topbusinesssoftware.com5

cotocus.com4

efficientip.com4

gitnux.org4

Fifty-five of the fifty-five domain citations in answers naming TCPWave came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.domotz.com/all/ipam-solutions6

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison6

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison4

gartner.com/reviews/market/dns-dhcp-and-ip-address-management-ddi4

gitnux.org/best/ddi-software4

peerspot.com/categories/ddi4

us.fitgap.com/search/ddi-management-platform/enterprise4

itechguides.com/best/ddi-management-platform3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

tcpwave.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, TCPWave takes 0% of first choices and BlueCat Micetro takes 15%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “ddi platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “ddi platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 140 a month (“tcpwave”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 636 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 418 · 2 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 654
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 20 of 115 in DDI and IPAM

Segment leader

15%

BlueCat Micetro

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 11 answers
Its own site cited: in 11 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on tcpwave.com

619

subdomains included

Content

192

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	161	undated	WAF
Report or ebook	24	undated
Case study	3	undated
Conference or event	3	undated
News or press	1	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page tcpwave.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow TCPWave

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

TCPWave is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Modern Cloud and Secure DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI) & ADC Solutions; AI-powered DDI & ADC solutions for superior network control, security, and seamless cloud integration.
tcpwave.com
For: Enterprises and service providers; hybrid cloud enterprises; customers needing DDI and ADC solutions.
tcpwave.com
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What TCPWave's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: tcpwave.com, tcpwave.com/security. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for TCPWave by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where TCPWave 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 TCPWave, 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.