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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