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Most teams think they know their network. Forward shows you what's actually there. One mathematically accurate model of every router, switch, firewall, load balancer, and cloud – verified complete, and always current.

With Forward Enterprise, you'll be able to:

  • See your entire network in a single verified model, on-prem, cloud, and hybrid
  • Find policy violations and security gaps without manually tracing paths
  • Answer "does traffic from A reach B?" in seconds, not hours
  • Eliminate the guesswork from audits, troubleshooting, and change planning
  • Replace tribal knowledge with a source of truth your whole team can query

Available to companies with 1,000+ employees headquartered in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, or South Korea.

What Forward Enterprise models

Configuration Data

  • Security & Access Control: ACLs, firewall policies, and NAT (Network Address Translation) rules
  • Routing & Forwarding Logic: Static routes, BGP/OSPF configurations, and VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) setups
  • Interfaces & Layer 2: Interface settings, VLAN definitions, and Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) configuration
  • Network Services: DNS, DHCP, and AAA/TACACS+ configurations

Live State Data

  • Routing & Forwarding Tables: RIB (Routing Information Base), FIB (Forwarding Information Base), and active route advertisements
  • Protocol Adjacencies: BGP session state, OSPF neighbor relationships, and the link-state database (LSDB)
  • Layer 2 Operational State: MAC address tables, ARP/ND tables, and live STP topology
  • Interface & Link Status: Operational up/down state, negotiated speed/duplex, and error counters

Trials personally reviewed. A Forward expert will be in touch within a few business days to get you started.

industry recognition

Awards

2025 Globee Golden Cybersecurity Award - Forward Networks
Mobile Breakthrough Award 2023
Global Infosec Awards Winner Cyber Defense Magazine 2024
Saas Award
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Related FAQs

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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