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 50 → 65 of 69
1 category · Named, not rankedWindstream
12Judge labels
0First choices
10Negative labels
10 / 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. Windstream 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 business67 of 71
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market72 of 73
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise46 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 Windstream 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% | 72 of 73 | 80% | 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, Windstream 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 49 → 67 of 67
EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 44 of 48, unchanged
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 49 → 72 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 Windstream 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 Windstream 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 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
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative10 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 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.
“Comcast Business and Windstream Enterprise offer competitive SD-WAN solutions at a lower price tier” Claude Haiku 4.5 · 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.
“Examples cited as problematic: Windstream, Spectrum, and similar carriers... "Avoid at all costs"” MiniMax M2.5 · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
“Frequently cited as having "disastrous" implementations with a lack of positive user feedback.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
“Implementations are often described as disastrous... Examples include Windstream” Mistral Small · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
“stay away from ISP-managed SD-WAN resale and Windstream specifically” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SD-WAN · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Windstream, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Windstream was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Windstream, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Windstream 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 Windstream. 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 12 of the 12 answers that named Windstream and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com8
reddit.com8
g2.com7
devopsschool.com6
it-ai-index.com6
paloaltonetworks.com6
interfacesystems.com5
linkedin.com4
rfp.wiki4
sequentur.com4
Fifty-eight of the fifty-eight domain citations in answers naming Windstream came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
windstreamenterprise.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Windstream takes 0% of first choices and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN takes 50%.ShowHide
Search and answers
windstreamenterprise.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Windstream takes 0% of first choices and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN takes 50%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “sd-wan platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “sd-wan platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 49,500 a month (“windstream”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3,052 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 263 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 71 · 3 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 905
- 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 editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 72 of 73 in SD-WAN
Segment leader
50%
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 12 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 12 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 Windstream
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Windstream; a claim can dispute any of them.
Windstream Enterprise 1
Follow Windstream
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
Windstream is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Windstream is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Free plan or trial
- Request a trial windstreamenterprise.com
- Certifications
- 2024 Gold Stevie® Network Security Solution for SASE2024 Silver Stevie® Customer Service Solution for CCaaS powered by Talkdesk2024 Cato Networks Service Provider Partner of the Year2024 and 2023 VSA Channel Program of the Year and Partner Portal Awards
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, integrations, hosting, customers
What Windstream's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: windstreamenterprise.com. 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 Windstream'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 Windstream, 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 Windstream by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Windstream 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 Windstream, 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.