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Forward Opens Free 30-Day Access to Forward Enterprise Digital Twin

Source Decision Insights Record Published August 31, 2026 Companies 5
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Forward, formerly Forward Networks, opened free 30-day access to Forward Enterprise, a mathematically accurate network digital twin. The company said the trial is intended to let teams evaluate how their network behaves before making changes in a production environment.

Forward said Forward Enterprise reflects what organizations “depend on to know exactly how their network behaves,” and positioned the free trial as available to teams beyond the Fortune 500. The company also cited earlier recognition for its network digital twin, including Gartner’s mention of Forward in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking (May 2026, G00846621) and other named awards.

According to the company, Forward Enterprise is paired with Forward AI, which answers questions by verifying against the network itself rather than relying on digging through configurations. During the trial, teams can run their production environment through the same technology, ask questions in plain English for verified, evidence-based answers, and identify which assets a new CVE actually touches based on real exposure.

The trial “starts now,” Forward said, with no credit card required, and access is available at www.forwardnetworks.com/free-trial. Forward CEO and co-founder David Erickson said certainty should not be reserved for the biggest budgets. Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research said Forward’s digital twin shifts teams away from “tribal knowledge” and manual configurations toward automated, AI-driven operations.

Forward said it provides a deterministic proof of how changes affect a production network before they are made, and cited deployments across multi-vendor environments and major clouds including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM.

Press release, provided by Cision on behalf of Forward Networks. Read the original.

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