Forward Predict

Know before you act.

Forward Predict runs proposed network changes against a mathematically accurate network digital twin of your production network. Now you can catch security, connectivity, and compliance risks at design time, before anything reaches production. 
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Certainty makes network changes faster.

Network changes slow down because you can't see what a change will do until it's live. So you add review cycles, stretch change windows, and pad the schedule. Forward Predict verifies proposed changes against the Forward Enterprise digital twin of your network at design time, so you can strip out the overhead that was only ever there to manage the unknown. Change verification that took days of manual review comes back in minutes, with an audit trail attached. 

What Forward Predict does

For teams running and securing networks, Forward Predict shows you what a network change will do before you make it. It's built on the Forward Enterprise digital twin, so the answers you get are accurate, deterministic, and verifiable.
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Know before the change window

Run your proposed change against the Forward Enterprise digital twin while it's still a plan. You catch security, connectivity, and compliance risks at design time and fix them at your desk, not at 2 a.m. in the middle of the window. 
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Find the device nobody thought to check

The digital twin models your network device by device, so you see what a change actually touches: the firewall three hops away, the backup path, the edge router that never made it onto the ticket. 
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Config diff before you deploy

For each device a change reaches, you get the baseline and predicted running-config side by side, with merges and overrides already applied. You review what the device will actually run. 
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Blast radius, mapped

Your routing, ACL, NAT, and firewall rule changes go through end-to-end reachability and path analysis. You see which flows open, which close, and which reroute before any traffic takes the new path. 

Verify an ACL change before the change window

The problem

Your application team needs traffic to flow between two segments. The change is a handful of ACL lines on a core switch. Will those lines open the flow that was requested, and will they open anything else? Peer review checks the lines against the request. What they'll actually do across the path is still an open question.

The solution

Forward Predict applies the edited ACL to the switch in the digital twin and runs end-to-end reachability and isolation checks. It compares your network as it is today with your network as it would be after the change. You see the requested flow working and the isolation you rely on still holding, before anyone touches the switch.

Faster network changes from design to approval

Design

Test design options against the Forward Enterprise digital twin of your network as you go. Each iteration comes back with a verified result in minutes, so you can explore more approaches and land on the right one sooner. 

Review

Forward Predict runs automated verification on the changes you submit, so your reviewers spend their time on what the verification flags. Reviews that took days of sequential sign-offs can close in hours. 

Approve

Your Change Advisory Board decides with verified evidence in front of it. Every approval rests on what the change will actually do, and the proof stays attached to the decision. 

One verification layer, across every team

Networking

Validate routing, ACL, and path changes against the digital twin of your production network before the change window opens. 

Security

See whether a firewall or segmentation change creates new exposure or breaks isolation, with evidence ready for your security review. 

Cloud

See whether a firewall or segmentation change creates new exposure or breaks isolation, with evidence ready for your security review. 

Compliance

Check policy changes against your compliance requirements at design time, with an auditable record of the result. 

Federal

Verify changes and produce compliance evidence in environments where an unverified change is not an option. 

What customers are saying

"I have deliberately tested scenarios that, if pushed live, would have isolated parts of the network and taken the network down. Predict catches them. Being able to test changes across our entire production network before they go live is a game-changer, and it accelerates our autonomous networking journey."
Steve Bamford,
Senior Network Engineer at IG Group
89%
reduction in update delivery time

Learn more about Forward Predict

Predict Launch blog post
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Forward Predict, Now Available

Read the launch post to see how verifying network changes on a digital twin dramatically reduces deployment risk and accelerates change delivery. 
Read the blog
Predict launch overview
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Forward Predict Overview

Unpack how mathematically accurate verification surfaces BGP, firewall, NAT, and hybrid-cloud risks at design time before changes touch production. 
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Predict webinar
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See Forward Predict in Action

Discover how a path to autonomous networking is possible built on a mathematically accurate network digital twin.
Watch the webinar
IG Group Onboarding
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IG Group Accelerates Onboarding

Read how a global fintech leader uses pre-change verification to safely execute complex BGP updates, prove failover scenarios, and eliminate late-night maintenance windows. 
Read the case study

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