Forward Networks Named Winner of 2018 Modern Infrastructure Impact Award for Best Software-Defined Infrastructure Solution
February 22 2018 - 11:58AM
Forward Networks, a leader in network analytics, automation and
intent-based networking solutions, today announced that the
company’s flagship platform, Forward Enterprise, has earned the
prestigious 2018 Modern Infrastructure Impact Award for best
software-defined infrastructure solution. Forward Enterprise helps
network engineers and operators ensure that their intended
networking and security policies are accurately implemented in
their network designs and configurations, allowing users to
proactively isolate errors that can lead to costly outages, while
accelerating time to remediate issues and deploy changes.
Now in its fifth year, The Modern Infrastructure Impact Awards
are judged by the Modern Infrastructure e-zine editorial staff in
conjunction with users, readers, and industry experts. They
recognize tools that help enterprise businesses run with efficiency
and insight. Forward Networks was selected in the software-defined
infrastructure category over solutions from Cumulus Networks, Big
Switch Networks and VMware.
"Although it's a small company, I think Forward Networks'
Forward Platform is pretty great," said Mark May, enterprise
infrastructure specialist. "It basically imports your network
configurations and lets you treat them like a sort of lab to
predict network intent. For me, these guys are the most
innovative." Readers were also impressed by the level of visibility
Forward Platform provides into the network. It performs continuous
verification to ensure the network follows the connectivity and
security policies that you've defined. As one voter said, it
"finally solves the underlay problem."
“We are thrilled to have been selected the winner of this Modern
Infrastructure Impact award from such a distinguished set of
finalists,” said David Erickson, CEO and Co-founder of Forward
Networks. “Especially with the selection process involving a wide
range of readers, users and industry experts. This is testimony to
how quickly we have been able to gain market traction and
recognition for a radically improved approach to identifying and
diagnosing network issues and accelerating change processes.”
Forward Enterprise is the result of primary research the four
founders developed at Stanford, growing out of their pioneering
efforts in software-defined networking, OpenFlow, and intent-based
networking. In addition to focusing on network automation, they
developed ways to model complex networks in software to allow
end-to-end path-based analysis, rather than traditional box-by-box
methods to analyze and verify network behavior. The resulting
intelligence can accelerate time to identify network issues by
upwards of 60-90% while proactively eliminating configuration
errors that could cause future outages.
About Forward Networks
Forward Networks is the leading provider of solutions for
intent-based networking and analytics for large enterprise
networks, communications providers and network integrators. Using
their flagship product Forward Enterprise, customers reduce time to
analyze and troubleshoot network issues, remove operational
complexity and increase network availability. Forward Networks was
founded in 2013 by four Stanford Ph.D. graduates and is
headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit
http://www.forwardnetworks.com.
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Forward Networks
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(408) 648-3054
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