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Digital Twin Guide

The Network Digital Twin Guide from Forward

Every network is built to a plan, but reality starts drifting from that plan the moment it goes live. Devices get added, configurations change, and exceptions accumulate until no one can say with certainty what the hybrid network looks like or how it behaves. The distance between design and behavior is the intent-reality gap.

This eBook examines what closes that gap. At the center is the mathematically accurate network digital twin: a behaviorally accurate model of the entire network, built from current configuration and state data across every major vendor and cloud. It covers the nine requirements that separate a complete digital twin from a partial one, the three questions to ask any vendor about accuracy, and the four maturity stages on the way to safe autonomous execution.

Download the eBook to learn:

  • The five categories of risk the intent-reality gap creates, and what each one costs across connectivity, security, compliance, delivery, and change
  • The nine requirements to evaluate any network digital twin against, and the four properties that separate a deterministic AI assistant from a generic LLM interface
  • The four maturity stages between behavioral truth and safe autonomous execution, and what each one requires

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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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