Forward Predict Now Generally Available for Safer Network Operations

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Forward today announced that Forward Predict, a first-of-its-kind capability and critical enabler of safe Agentic NetOps, is now generally available. The company's new tool allows organizations to reduce network change risk and accelerate delivery, with early customers already seeing significant benefits.

Early customers across financial services, media, and technology have already begun to reap the rewards of Forward Predict. Organizations in these sectors have used the tool to reduce change risk and speed up delivery processes. For instance, Steve Bamford, a Senior Network Engineer at IG Group, has been using Forward Predict for several months now, and has extended its use from validating BGP and routing changes to his firewall rule workflow. As a result, automated path checks now catch unnecessary firewall rules before they are implemented, cutting his team's firewall change delivery time by roughly 95 percent and saving them more than 30 hours of manual work every month.

Forward Predict, built on Forward Enterprise's mathematically accurate digital twin, provides AI agents and human teams with the proof they need to operate safely. The tool verifies the impact of every proposed change against the actual state of the network, exposing connectivity, security, and compliance risks before they surface as breaches, outages, or audit findings. Since its beta launch in May, organizations across financial services, media, and technology have used Forward Predict to reduce change risk and accelerate delivery.

Forward continues to deepen the capabilities of Forward Enterprise, adding new integrations, security intelligence, and ways to access verified network knowledge across the same mathematically accurate digital twin. As of today, Forward Predict is generally available, and interested organizations can request a free trial.

Forward makes safe autonomous networking possible, and the company's mathematically accurate network digital twin delivers deterministic proof of how any change will affect the production network before it is made, giving organizations the behavioral insight they need to move fast, operate securely, and scale with confidence across multi-vendor environments and every major cloud, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM.

Global leaders, including Goldman Sachs, PayPal, S&P Global, IBM, and Dell, alongside other Fortune 500 enterprises, fast-growing companies, and government agencies, rely on Forward to ensure network behavior matches intent. According to a recent IDC report, the average Forward customer experiences $14.2M in annual benefits through improved efficiency and security.