# ISP-provided SD-WAN solutions: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/isp-provided-sd-wan-solutions

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [SD-WAN](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/sd-wan/index.md) | 0% | 73 | 100% | 2 |

## And against it

- "Every ISP-managed SD-WAN implementation I found was described as "disastrously bad"" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, SD-WAN)
- "Every implementation has gone disastrously bad." (Llama 4 Maverick, SD-WAN)

## 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 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named ISP-provided SD-WAN solutions, from 2 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- reddit.com: 2
- arista.com: 1
- arxiv.org: 1
- azure.status.microsoft: 1
- channeldive.com: 1
- cyber.gc.ca: 1
- dcconnectglobal.com: 1
- docs.paloaltonetworks.com: 1
- easysam.co.uk: 1
- fortinet.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://reddit.com/r/networking/comments/lqt9vp/impressions_of_sdwan_vendors: 2
- https://arista.com/en/support/velocloud-resources: 1
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.04583: 1
- https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history: 1
- https://channeldive.com/news/tpx-mediation-arista-networks-sd-wan-velocloud-support/830066: 1
- https://cyber.gc.ca/en/news-events/joint-guidance-malicious-cyber-threats-sd-wan-networks: 1
- https://dcconnectglobal.com/sd-wan-providers-compared-2026: 1
- https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/prisma-sd-wan/incidents-and-alerts/incidents-and-alerts: 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.