arrow down

  • discover forward

    forward enterprise

    Forward Networks’ flagship product, Forward Enterprise, delivers a vendor-agnostic “digital twin” of the network, designed for both cloud and on-prem networks

  • platform highlights

    network security

    Delivering vulnerability management, attack surface management, and stronger security posture through the digital twin model

    multi-cloud

    Gain end-to-end visibility, service assurance and continuously audit your entire cloud estate with Forward Enterprise and Forward Cloud

    network data intelligence

    True network reliability, agility, and security by collecting and organizing network data to make it useful and actionable

Arrow down

  • solutions

    overview

    Forward Networks can help solve a spectrum of network challenges. Explore by use case, technology or industry.

    federal solutions

    Forward Enterprise provides unified visibility across agency estates, ensures network resiliency, and expedites remediation

    Technology Partners

    API Integrations that enhance efficiency through seamless data exchange with the Forward Enterprise platform

  • solution examples

    universal iT

    Explore ways Forward Enterprise can improve Inventory management, change control, compliance + auditing, and workflow

    network security

    Delivering vulnerability management, attack surface management, and stronger security posture through the digital twin model

    multi-cloud

    Gain end-to-end visibility, service assurance and continuously audit your entire cloud estate with Forward Enterprise and Forward Cloud

    Network Operations

    Prevent configuration drift and expedite troubleshooting with unparalleled path verification

Arrow down

  • impact

    Why Forward?

    Our vendor-agnostic "digital twin" of your network is the most-awarded network modeling software of its kind.

    customer stories

    See why the world’s most critical networks depend on Forward Networks

    technology

    Learn what makes our platform so powerful: header space analysis, mathematical modeling, and all about Network Query Engine

  • company

    about us

    From the four founders to the most awarded network modeling software in its class

    careers

    Learn about what makes Forward unique and find open opportunities to put your skills and career goals to work for you

Arrow down

  • resources

    press room

    News articles, press release, and the latest downloadable content

    resource library

    Explore Forward Networks data sheets, whitepapers, ebooks, videos, and more

    events

    Talk one on one in-person or virtually with Forward product experts and technical architects

    blog

    Read the latest product updates, query tips, and customer use cases on the Forward Blog

    FWD Community

    Access community resources, collaboration tools, and knowlege-sharing forums.

    Customer Support Portal

    Need product support? Login to the Forward Networks Support Portal.

support
Get a demo
menu
Forward Networks logo

Posts tagged with: video

My multicast network is a mess! Please help!

Multicast IP Routing protocols have been increasingly popular over the last several years.  They are used to efficiently distribute data to a group of destination hosts simultaneously in a one-to-many or many-to-many model.  Typical examples of applications where the use of multicast is very common are audio/video streaming services (e.g content delivery networks, IPTV) and financial trading platforms (e.g Stock Exchanges).  This blog is not intended to be a multicast tutorial but, but […]

Network Query Engine Library

Here we are with yet another blog on the Forward Network Query Engine (or NQE for short). If you have been reading our previous blogs on this topic, you already know how passionate I am about NQE. In my first blog Query Your Network like a Database, I talked about how NQE helps to solve common […]

Scaling: How We Process 10^30 Network Traffic Flows

What do we do? At Forward Networks we build digital twins for computer networks. Enterprises with large networks use our software to build a software copy of their network and use that for searching, verifying, and predicting behavior of their network. It is not a simulation. It is a mathematically accurate model of their network. […]

Who Needs a Dashboard?

The idea of building the Forward Dashboard has been floating around for a while now, but we kept postponing it to give priority to other features, like In-App Network Query Engine Checks, that built on the functionality and the customization of the Forward Platform. We’ve also done lots of work recently to improve usability and scalability.  […]

In-App NQE Checks Examples Now Available on GitHub

Network Query Engine (NQE) is my favorite Forward Enterprise feature and is one of the reasons why I decided to join Forward Networks. After working on Network Programmability and Automation for years, the idea of a single platform able to provide network device data, fully parsed, normalized, structured in OpenConfig-like format, across switches, routers, firewalls, and load balancers […]

Network Query Engine (NQE) with Postman

The GraphQL schema can be imported manually instead, providing autocomplete (no documentation, sorry). GraphQL Schema Definition Language (SDL) is the only format supported at the moment.

The NQE schema in SDL format can be exported from the Forward platform and manually imported in Postman. See the NQE Github repository for how-to instructions.

After the NQE schema is manually imported, you can easily build the Postman requests by selecting GraphQL, selecting the imported NQE schema, writing the query, send it and… voilà!

Introducing Partial Collection

Partial Collection allows users to dramatically reduce the collection time by restricting and triggering a new collection from a subset of devices and then merging the new data with the most recent Snapshot.

Top cross