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GigaOm: Radar for Network Validation

Ivan McPhee, Analyst at GigaOm
  • GigaOm notes that many IT teams still validate network behavior manually, a practice that is error-prone, time-consuming, and unreliable. This makes it difficult for teams to confirm whether the network is operating within policy and behaving as intended.
  • Network validation, powered by digital twin technology, removes this uncertainty and gives teams a precise way to model, analyze, and verify network behavior at scale.
  • To help IT leaders evaluate solutions, GigaOm released the Network Validation Key Criteria and Radar reports.
  • The Radar report compares leading vendors and highlights those that deliver strong performance across accuracy, scale, usability, and depth of analysis.
  • As an outperformer in the latest GigaOm Radar for Network Validation v4, Forward Networks is pleased to provide free access to both reports.

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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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