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Leverage Network Digital Twins to Increase Agility and Lower Risk

Leverage Digital Twins to increase agility and Lower Risk
Tim Zimmerman, Andrew Lerner
and Mike Leibovitz

Forward Enterprise is the most comprehensive and sophisticated network digital twin available. The platform empowers engineers to improve network security, query the network like a database, prove compliance, and gain visibility across the global network and drill down to a single device or instance.

Benefits of a Network Digital Twin

The network is constantly changing to keep up with business demands.  Organizations are pushing to make changes faster with greater accuracy at a time when there’s a limited number of skilled technical resources. A network digital twin can mitigate these issues.

“Through 2028, organizations using network digital twins to model their configuration and software/firmware updates will reduce their unplanned outages by 70%.” According to Gartner® report “Leverage Network Digital Twins to Increase Agility and Lower Risk” [April 2025 | ID G00828393], “Enterprise network teams struggle to keep up with the testing required for each network software release and the systemwide effects of configuration changes. I&O leaders can reduce risk and chaos by using network digital twins and automating the testing of configurations, policies and equipment”

Gartner, Leverage Network Digital Twins to Increase Agility and Lower Risk, Tim Zimmerman, Andrew Lerner, Mike Leibovitz, 14 April 2025

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Forward Networks would like to offer you this complimentary report to discover how to start increasing agility and lowering risk with network digital twin technology.

Awards

Forward Networks digital twin solution has been recognized across the industry for its groundbreaking approach to network management
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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