Join the Forward Partner network

Yes. Forward is launching its full Partner program, Partner portal, and benefits in January 2027. The program is designed for value added resellers (VARs), systems integrators (SIs) and consultants, managed service providers (MSPs), technology alliance partners, and OEMs. Partners can submit an inquiry now at forwardnetworks.com/company/partners to register their interest and be notified when program details are available.

Forward sells Forward Enterprise, a mathematically accurate digital twin of an organization’s entire network, from on-prem data centers and campuses to the cloud. Network, security, and cloud teams use it to verify how the network behaves, reduce change-related outages, troubleshoot faster, produce compliance evidence, and prioritize vulnerability remediation. It works across multi-vendor environments, so it complements the infrastructure customers already run.

A network digital twin is a software model of a production network, built from device configuration and state data, that lets teams analyze network behavior without touching live infrastructure. Forward pioneered the category, and its digital twin is mathematically accurate: it computes every possible traffic path through the network. For Partners, a digital twin adds a vendor-agnostic verification layer to the routing, switching, firewall, and cloud solutions they already sell and support.

With Forward, Partners can help customers with pre-change verification and outage prevention, incident troubleshooting and path analysis, security policy and segmentation verification, vulnerability and CVE impact analysis, continuous compliance and audit evidence, network inventory and lifecycle management, and multi-cloud network visibility.

In an IDC Business Value study sponsored by Forward (June 2024), organizations using Forward reported an average of $14.2M in annual benefits, 33% fewer occurrences of unplanned downtime, and 55% faster remediation when those incidents occur. IDC based these findings on in-depth interviews with Forward customers, so results vary by environment. Partners can use the study to support business cases with enterprise buyers.

Forward Enterprise is vendor-agnostic. It models routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, SD-WAN, and wireless from more than 30 network and security vendors, along with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud. Data collection is read-only, and Forward never pushes changes to the network.

Both. Forward Enterprise can be deployed as SaaS or on-premises in the customer’s own environment. On-premises deployments keep network data within the customer’s infrastructure and can run in air-gapped environments, which matters for regulated industries and government agencies.

Automation is only as safe as the data behind it. Forward gives automation tools and AI agents verified data about how the network actually behaves. Forward Predict checks proposed changes, including AI-proposed changes, against a mathematically accurate digital twin of the production network before they’re deployed. Forward Enterprise also integrates with IT service management tools such as ServiceNow through its APIs.

Forward is trusted by Fortune 5000 companies and government agencies with complex, mission-critical, multi-vendor networks. Customers span industries such as financial services, healthcare, and media and entertainment, along with federal defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies.

Submit a Partner inquiry on this page, and Forward’s Partnerships team will follow up. If you have a specific customer opportunity, check the box on the form so we can route your inquiry to the right team. To see the product, watch how Forward Enterprise builds a mathematically accurate digital twin from the configs and state of every device, across 30+ vendors and AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud.