What is a Digital Twin?

Forward's digital twin gives your teams a mathematically accurate model of your entire hybrid network, so they move faster, operate with certainty, and break nothing.

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How the network digital twin works

Forward continuously collects data from every device on your network and builds a mathematically accurate digital twin.
Query it, model changes against it, and get verified answers before anything touches the real network.

Built on mathematical accuracy

Every device, configuration, protocol and policy. On-prem, cloud, hybrid; always current, always true.

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What the network digital twin enables

With a mathematically accurate digital twin, your teams can answer the questions that used to go unanswered.

Do we have an accurate inventory of all network assets?

Can packet X get to destination Y right now?

What changed, and why did the update break the network?

Does the production network operate the way it was designed?

Will the proposed change work, and what is the predicted impact?

Now you know before you act. Your network, security, and cloud teams move faster, with certainty, and break nothing.

Essential resources

The Network Digital Twin Guide

Autonomous networking starts with a mathematically accurate network digital twin. Learn more in the guide.

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Gartner 2026 Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking

2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking

Gartner® names network digital twins a transformational technology. Get the full report.

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Proven results

$14.2M

average annual benefit per customer

83%

reduction in productivity loss from unplanned downtime

55%

faster to resolve unplanned downtime

71%

faster network deployment

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"In the past year, we have scaled our deployment of Forward Enterprise to our entire network of tens of thousands of devices. Our network engineering team relies on the Forward platform to be the single source of truth for our network."

Joshua Matheus,
Managing Director,
Technology, Goldman Sachs