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
SD-WAN	Network and edge	2%	8 of 53	36%	42	criticized challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	3	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	2	4
Mistral Small	1	0	2	1	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	2	4
Kimi K2	0	0	0	4	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	2	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	1	1	4

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

Direct21 labels1

Paraphrase16 labelsNone

Comparative29 labelsNone

Budget-constrained13 labelsNone

Scale-constrained15 labelsNone

Negative28 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative122 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“the best SD-WAN platforms for mid-market B2B companies are VMware SD-WAN and Aruba EdgeConnect” Mistral Small · SD-WAN · direct prompt · first choice

“Strengths: Highest score in Cloud-First WAN use case; strong performance in large hybrid WAN; strong SASE positioning” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose VMware VeloCloud if you care most about application performance and telemetry-based steering” Perplexity Sonar · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · alternative

“VMware remains a powerhouse for businesses where application performance ... is critical.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · direct 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.

“Massive instability post-acquisition... Currently on VeloCloud | Plan migration strategy” Kimi K2 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative

“it has faced limited innovation and customer concerns amid acquisitions, and its pricing/roadmap clarity has been questioned” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SD-WAN · comparative prompt · soft negative

“Multiple community reports indicate VeloCloud's development and momentum have declined significantly under Broadcom ownership.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

“the platform is in a high-risk transition phase... Be cautious if a reseller pitches you "VMware VeloCloud"” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN, over the 122 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN110 of 12230Not in the top three

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN73 of 12223Not in the top three

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN67 of 1223Not in the top three

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN56 of 12221Not in the top three

HPE Aruba EdgeConnect53 of 1222Not in the top three

Versa Secure SD-WAN52 of 1220Not in the top three

Cisco29 of 1227Not in the top three

Cato Networks27 of 1223Not in the top three

Aryaka20 of 1220Not in the top three

Peplink18 of 1221Not 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 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, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 102 of the 122 answers that named VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com74

interfacesystems.com43

zpesystems.com42

cisco.com39

techtarget.com39

stlpartners.com38

costbench.com35

reddit.com35

fortinet.com31

g2.com28

404 of the 404 domain citations in answers naming VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/sd-wan69

interfacesystems.com/blog/top-sd-wan-vendors43

zpesystems.com/sd-wan-leaders-zs40

stlpartners.com/articles/network-innovation/sd-wan-providers38

techtarget.com/it-infrastructure/tip/SD-WAN-comparison-chart-10-vendors-to-assess28

digitalcarbon.io/blog/sd-wan-leaders-in-the-202427

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-sd-wan-vendors26

reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1kuoatj/best_sdwan_providers_to_offer_small_businesses24

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 8Broadcom (VMware) 5VMware SD-WAN 4VMware 3Arista VeloCloud 2Arista Networks VeloCloud SD-WAN 1Broadcom (VMware SASE SD-WAN) 1Broadcom (VMware SASE) 1Broadcom (VMware) SD-WAN 1Broadcom/VMware 1VMware (VeloCloud) 1VMware (Velocloud) 1VMware SD-WAN (Broadcom) 1VMware SD-WAN (VeloCloud) 1VMware SD-WAN (now part of Broadcom) 1VMware VeloCloud (Now Broadcom) 1VMware VeloCloud (now Arista/Broadcom) 1VMware VeloCloud (now Broadcom) 1VMware VeloCloud (now part of Broadcom) 1VMware VeloCloud SD‑WAN 1VMware VeloCloud/Broadcom 1VeloCloud 1Velocloud 1

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