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 51 → 64 of 69
VMware · 1 category · RankedVMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
130Judge labels
2First choices
51Negative labels
14 / 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.
Best standing
4% in SD-WAN for mid-market buyers
Rank 6 of 73 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 32% of its 53 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business66 of 71
0%35 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market6 of 73
4%53 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise33 of 52
0%40 labels
criticized challenger
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 VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN 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 | 4% | 6 of 73 | 32% | 53 | criticized challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · SD-WAN · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 8 → 6 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 32 → 43 of 48
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | 2% | 5% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 6 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 VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN 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 VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct26 labels2
Paraphrase14 labelsNone
Comparative33 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained16 labelsNone
Scale-constrained11 labelsNone
Negative30 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative130 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.
“VMware SD-WAN and Aruba EdgeConnect are top choices due to their strong application performance, scalability, and ease of use” Mistral Small · SD-WAN · direct prompt · first choice
“VMware SD-WAN and Aruba EdgeConnect are specifically highlighted as excellent choices for mid-market companies” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · direct prompt · first choice
“commonly recommended together with VMware SD-WAN for mid-market needs where scalability, security and advanced analytics ... are required” Muse Glimmer 30B · SD-WAN · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“If you rely heavily on MSPs, multi-cloud architectures, or want an AI-optimized network fabric ... choose Arista VeloCloud.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SD-WAN · 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.
“High Caution: Broadcom/VMware (VeloCloud) ... Existing VeloCloud customers should evaluate migration paths; new buyers should wait” Kimi K2 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
“Significant quality decline following Broadcom's acquisition of VMware... Consider carefully before new deployments” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
“Velocloud has significantly declined in quality since being acquired by Broadcom” Llama 4 Maverick · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Viptela, VMware VeloCloud (under Broadcom)” Mistral Small · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, over the 128 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, over the 128 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN 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 VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN. 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 122 of the 128 answers that named VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com84
cisco.com52
g2.com44
interfacesystems.com44
fortinet.com43
it-ai-index.com40
peerspot.com35
datacipher.com32
gartner.com31
myhospitalnow.com31
436 of the 436 domain citations in answers naming VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 30 a month (“vmware velocloud sd-wan”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on VMware's site (vmware.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 6 of 73 in SD-WAN
Segment leader
50%
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 128 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 122 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.
Names read as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN; a claim can dispute any of them.
VMware VeloCloud 12VMware SD-WAN (VeloCloud) 4Arista VeloCloud 3VMware SD-WAN 3VeloCloud 3VMware SD-WAN (formerly VeloCloud) 2VMware VeloCloud (now Broadcom) 2VMware Velocloud 2Broadcom (VMware SD-WAN) 1Broadcom (VMware) SD-WAN 1Broadcom/VMware 1VMware (Broadcom) VeloCloud 1VMware (Now Broadcom - VMwareSD-WAN by VeloCloud) 1VMware (now part of Broadcom) 1VMware (now part of Broadcom/Cisco) 1VMware SD-WAN (Broadcom VeloCloud) 1VMware SD-WAN (by Broadcom) 1VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud 1VMware VeloCloud (Now Arista VeloCloud) 1VMware VeloCloud (Now Broadcom) 1VMware VeloCloud / Arista 1VMware VeloCloud / VMware SD-WAN 1VMware/Arista VeloCloud 1VMware/Broadcom 1
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