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Gartner® Names Network Digital Twins a Transformational Technology

Gartner 2026 Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking
Mike Leibovitz, Jonathan Forest, Karen Brown, Andrew Lerner - Gartner® Analysts

In its 2026 Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking (May 2026 • G00846621), Gartner® identifies network digital twin technology as Transformational. Get the full report to see why we think Gartner believes this technology is changing how enterprise teams validate network changes.

In our opinion, Forward Predict was built to eliminate the same pressures Gartner points to in its analysis: the widening gap between the pace of network change and the ability to test it, the outages and breaches that trace back to configuration and policy mistakes, and the push toward safer automation. Forward Predict verifies every proposed change against a mathematically accurate model of your full production network before it ships. Download the report for the full Gartner analysis.

Gartner, Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2026, Mike Leibovitz, Jonathan Forest, Karen Brown, Andrew Lerner, 22 May 2026

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A network digital twin is a digital model of the network that makes network data accessible and actionable to ensure the network behaves as expected and is secure.
Network, security, and cloud operations teams use the data and insights from a digital twin to troubleshoot issues faster and act proactively to prevent costly outages.
A digital twin model is built by gathering configuration and state data from network devices and then analyzing all the possible paths that packets can take in your network
Key benefits include speeding up mean time to resolution, ensuring security posture and compliance, addressing issues proactively before they cause an outage, increasing collaboration between IT teams, and reducing operational expenses.
Customers using Forward Networks’ digital twin realize an average of $14.2 million in benefits annually due to decreasing productivity loss and downtime
A digital twin provides hop-by-hop path analysis from on-premises networks through the cloud to the internet. This unified view enhances security policy enforcement and reduces costs, delivering a single pane of glass for managing the entire hybrid, multi-cloud network.
Digital twins are currently deployed in commercial organizations with mission-critical networks, such as financial services, healthcare, and entertainment, as well as federal ones in the military, intelligence, and civilian spaces, where network security is a matter of national security.
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