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Learn how artificial intelligence is transforming network operations through Forward Networks' innovative approach to network management in this 22-minute conference presentation. Discover why traditional network operational models relying on manual CLIs, spreadsheets, and outdated diagrams are inadequate for today's complex enterprise environments shaped by AI, cloud, and data-intensive workloads. Explore Forward Networks' groundbreaking solution that shifts from reactive symptom measurement to proactive network understanding through a mathematically accurate digital twin technology developed from PhD research. Understand how this digital twin exhaustively collects configuration and protocol state data from all packet-moving devices across on-premise infrastructure and cloud environments, creating a centralized source of truth that provides instant answers about network inventory, connectivity, security posture, and compliance. Examine the operational transformation this approach enables, eliminating manual data extraction while facilitating collaboration between network, security, and compliance teams around verified information. Learn about Forward AI, the conversational interface that allows users to ask complex network questions in plain English and receive trusted answers based on the digital twin's ground truth data, fundamentally changing how organizations interact with and manage their critical network infrastructure.
