# Cisco NAC Appliance/Clean Access: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cisco-nac-appliance-clean-access

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Network access control](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/network-access-control/index.md) | 0% | 99 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "Cisco NAC Appliance / Clean Access (including 3100/3300 hardware): avoid for new deployments." (GPT-6 Luna, NAC)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cisco NAC Appliance/Clean Access, from 2 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- cisco.com: 2 (its own site)
- cisa.gov: 1
- extremenetworks.com: 1
- learn.microsoft.com: 1
- support.hpe.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/CISA%20TIC%203.0%20Remote%20User%20Use%20Case%20v2.2_2.pdf: 1
- https://cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/705/fn70500.html: 1
- https://cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/retired.html: 1
- https://extremenetworks.com/support/end-of-sale-and-end-of-support-products: 1
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune-service/protect/network-access-control-integrate: 1
- https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.