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Alternatives to Cisco

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If you're comparing Cisco with other companies in Networking, Edge & IoT and Security and 1 more, start here. These are the 66 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.

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Networking: Cisco's main category

19 companies sit alongside Cisco here, busiest first.

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  • Cloudflare#11 leader in Networking

    Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…

    • 85 stories in the last 90 days

    Also in Security

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  • NVIDIA#18 leader in Networking

    NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive…

    • 55 stories in the last 90 days

    Also in Edge & IoT

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  • HPE#2 leader in Networking

    HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services…

    • 33 stories in the last 90 days

    Also in Edge & IoT and Hybrid & Multicloud

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  • Akamai#12 leader in Networking

    Akamai Technologies is a US content delivery, cybersecurity and cloud computing company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It operates one of the…

    • 37 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Megaport#17 leader in Networking

    Megaport is a Network as a Service (NaaS) provider that offers on-demand, software-defined connectivity between data centres, public clouds and enterprise locations. Its portfolio…

    • 23 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Infoblox#15 leader in Networking

    Infoblox is a US networking and security company specialising in DDI, the combination of DNS, DHCP and IP address management, and DNS-based security. Its products include NIOS…

    • 16 stories in the last 90 days
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  • F5#9 leader in Networking

    F5 is an American application delivery and security company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It provides load balancing, web application and API…

    • 6 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Cato Networks#13 leader in Networking

    Cato Networks is an Israeli networking and security company founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells the Cato SASE Cloud platform…

    • 7 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Broadcom#19 leader in Networking

    Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It…

    • 11 stories in the last 90 days

    Also in Hybrid & Multicloud

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  • Arista Networks#3 leader in Networking

    Arista Networks is a US networking company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It sells high-speed Ethernet switches and routers running its EOS…

    Evidence is still building for Arista Networks.

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  • Aviatrix#16 leader in Networking

    Aviatrix is a US cloud networking and network security company founded in 2014. Its platform provides multicloud networking, cloud firewalling and egress security, and network…

    Evidence is still building for Aviatrix.

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  • Ciena#8 leader in Networking

    Ciena is a US networking systems and software company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland. It sells optical networking equipment including WaveLogic coherent…

    Evidence is still building for Ciena.

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  • Ericsson#5 leader in Networking

    Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunications equipment and services company founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and headquartered in Stockholm. It supplies mobile network…

    Evidence is still building for Ericsson.

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  • Extreme Networks#7 leader in Networking

    Extreme Networks is an American networking company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. It provides enterprise wired and wireless networking…

    Evidence is still building for Extreme Networks.

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  • Fortinet#10 leader in Networking

    Fortinet is a US cybersecurity company known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls, built on its FortiOS operating system and custom security processors. Its Fortinet…

    Evidence is still building for Fortinet.

    Also in Security

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  • Huawei#6 leader in Networking

    Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its…

    Evidence is still building for Huawei.

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  • Nokia#4 leader in Networking

    Nokia is a Finnish telecommunications equipment and technology company that supplies mobile, IP, optical and fixed network infrastructure to communications service providers and…

    Evidence is still building for Nokia.

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  • Ubiquiti#14 leader in Networking

    Ubiquiti is a US networking technology company founded in 2003 by Robert Pera and headquartered in New York City. It designs networking hardware and software under the UniFi brand…

    Evidence is still building for Ubiquiti.

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  • Versa Networks#20 leader in Networking

    Versa Networks is a US networking and security company founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells VersaONE, a universal SASE platform that combines…

    Evidence is still building for Versa Networks.

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Edge & IoT

17 companies sit alongside Cisco here, busiest first. 2 others are listed in an earlier section.

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  • Amazon Web Services#3 leader in Edge & IoT

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…

    • 190 stories in the last 90 days

    Also in Hybrid & Multicloud

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  • Siemens#1 leader in Edge & IoT

    Siemens is a German technology company, Siemens AG, headquartered in Munich and founded in 1847. Its Digital Industries business sells SIMATIC automation and Industrial Edge…

    • 66 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Dell Technologies#7 leader in Edge & IoT

    Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services…

    • 48 stories in the last 90 days

    Also in Hybrid & Multicloud

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  • Microsoft#4 leader in Edge & IoT

    Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…

    • 20 stories in the last 90 days

    Also in Security and Hybrid & Multicloud

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  • Digi International#19 leader in Edge & IoT

    Digi International is an American Internet of Things company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota. It provides IoT connectivity hardware, including cellular…

    • 8 stories in the last 90 days
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  • ABB#17 leader in Edge & IoT

    ABB is a Swiss-Swedish electrification and automation company formed in 1988 by the merger of ASEA and Brown, Boveri & Cie. Headquartered in Zurich, it supplies electrification…

    Evidence is still building for ABB.

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  • Intel#8 leader in Edge & IoT

    Intel is a US semiconductor company that designs and manufactures x86 processors, including Xeon data centre CPUs and Core client processors, along with Gaudi AI accelerators…

    Evidence is still building for Intel.

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  • Advantech#18 leader in Edge & IoT

    Advantech is a Taiwanese industrial computing company founded in 1983 and headquartered in Taipei. It makes embedded boards and systems, industrial PCs, edge computers, IoT…

    Evidence is still building for Advantech.

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  • Bosch#14 leader in Edge & IoT

    Bosch (Robert Bosch GmbH) is a German engineering and technology group founded in 1886 by Robert Bosch and headquartered in Gerlingen near Stuttgart. It operates in mobility…

    Evidence is still building for Bosch.

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  • Emerson#20 leader in Edge & IoT

    Emerson is an American industrial automation technology company founded in 1890 and headquartered in the St. Louis, Missouri, area. It provides control systems, measurement…

    Evidence is still building for Emerson.

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  • Honeywell Technologies#13 leader in Edge & IoT

    Honeywell Technologies is the name under which Honeywell operates as a pure-play automation company following the June 2026 spin-off of Honeywell Aerospace. Its industrial IoT and…

    Evidence is still building for Honeywell Technologies.

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  • Particle#16 leader in Edge & IoT

    Particle is an IoT platform company that provides connected hardware modules, cellular connectivity and cloud software for building, deploying and managing fleets of connected…

    Evidence is still building for Particle.

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  • PTC#2 leader in Edge & IoT

    PTC is a US industrial software company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1985 as Parametric Technology Corporation. It sells product lifecycle and engineering…

    Evidence is still building for PTC.

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  • Qualcomm#10 leader in Edge & IoT

    Qualcomm is a US semiconductor and wireless technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, founded in 1985. It designs Snapdragon system-on-chips, 5G modems and RF…

    Evidence is still building for Qualcomm.

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  • Rockwell Automation#12 leader in Edge & IoT

    Rockwell Automation is a US industrial automation and digital transformation company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with roots in the Allen-Bradley company founded in…

    Evidence is still building for Rockwell Automation.

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  • Samsara#15 leader in Edge & IoT

    Samsara is a US industrial IoT company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015 by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket. Its Connected Operations Platform combines…

    Evidence is still building for Samsara.

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  • Schneider Electric#11 leader in Edge & IoT

    Schneider Electric is a French multinational energy management and industrial automation company, Schneider Electric SE, headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, France, with origins in…

    Evidence is still building for Schneider Electric.

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Security

16 companies sit alongside Cisco here, busiest first. 3 others are listed in an earlier section.

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  • Rapid7#14 leader in Security

    Rapid7 is a US cybersecurity company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2000. It sells the Command Platform for exposure management and threat detection and…

    • 42 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Check Point Software#7 leader in Security

    Check Point Software Technologies is an Israeli cybersecurity company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells network firewalls and the Quantum security gateway…

    • 25 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Sophos#19 leader in Security

    Sophos is a British cybersecurity company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It sells endpoint protection (Intercept X), firewalls, managed detection and…

    • 25 stories in the last 90 days
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  • CrowdStrike#2 leader in Security

    CrowdStrike is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its cloud-native Falcon…

    • 22 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Proofpoint#13 leader in Security

    Proofpoint is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2002. It focuses on human-centric security, with products for email security, security…

    • 23 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Wiz#11 leader in Security

    Wiz is a cloud security company founded in 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, Yinon Costica and Roy Reznik, headquartered in New York City with research and development in…

    • 30 stories in the last 90 days
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  • TrendAI#18 leader in Security

    TrendAI is the enterprise cybersecurity business of Japan's Trend Micro Incorporated, which renamed the business from Trend Micro to TrendAI in March 2026. It sells the TrendAI…

    • 19 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Zscaler#5 leader in Security

    Zscaler is a US cloud security company founded in 2007 by Jay Chaudhry and K. Kailash and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its Zero Trust Exchange platform delivers secure…

    • 18 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Palo Alto Networks#1 leader in Security

    Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company offering network security, cloud security and security operations platforms. Its portfolio includes next-generation firewalls and…

    • 26 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Qualys#16 leader in Security

    Qualys is a cloud-based cybersecurity and compliance company headquartered in Foster City, California, founded in 1999. Its Qualys Cloud Platform provides vulnerability management…

    • 17 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Tenable#15 leader in Security

    Tenable is a US cybersecurity company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. It is known for the Nessus vulnerability scanner and sells exposure management…

    • 15 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Darktrace#20 leader in Security

    Darktrace is a British cybersecurity company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Cambridge, England. It uses self-learning AI that models normal behaviour in each organisation to…

    • 11 stories in the last 90 days
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  • CyberArk#17 leader in Security

    CyberArk is an identity security company founded in Israel in 1999 by Udi Mokady and Alon N. Cohen, with headquarters in Newton, Massachusetts, and Petah Tikva, Israel. Its…

    Evidence is still building for CyberArk.

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  • Netskope#12 leader in Security

    Netskope is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE) and SASE through its Netskope One platform, combining secure web gateway, CASB, zero…

    Evidence is still building for Netskope.

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  • Okta#8 leader in Security

    Okta is an identity and access management company that provides cloud-based single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, lifecycle management and identity governance for…

    Evidence is still building for Okta.

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  • SentinelOne#9 leader in Security

    SentinelOne is a US cybersecurity company headquartered in Mountain View, California, founded in 2013. Its Singularity Platform provides AI-driven endpoint protection, extended…

    Evidence is still building for SentinelOne.

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Hybrid & Multicloud

14 companies sit alongside Cisco here, busiest first. 5 others are listed in an earlier section.

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  • Google Cloud#7 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…

    • 82 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Red Hat#2 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform and Ansible…

    • 64 stories in the last 90 days
    • 1 published review
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  • Lenovo#13 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers…

    • 37 stories in the last 90 days
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  • SUSE#19 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform…

    • 16 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Equinix#14 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data…

    • 20 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Flexera#18 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Flexera is a US software company that helps organisations manage and optimise technology spend across software licences, SaaS and public cloud. Its Flexera One platform covers IT…

    • 18 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Canonical#20 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells…

    • 17 stories in the last 90 days
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  • HashiCorp#15 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    HashiCorp is a US infrastructure software company known for Terraform for infrastructure as code and Vault for secrets management, alongside Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant and…

    • 18 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Nutanix#5 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage…

    • 25 stories in the last 90 days
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  • Rackspace Technology#16 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS…

    • 11 stories in the last 90 days
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  • IBM#9 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…

    Evidence is still building for IBM.

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  • Kyndryl#17 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Kyndryl is an IT infrastructure services company that designs, runs and modernises mission-critical systems for large enterprises, covering cloud, applications, data and AI…

    Evidence is still building for Kyndryl.

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  • NetApp#12 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS…

    Evidence is still building for NetApp.

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  • Oracle#10 leader in Hybrid & Multicloud

    Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…

    Evidence is still building for Oracle.

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How this list is put together

Every company here shares at least one category with Cisco. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Cisco's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.

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