Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 13

Forward Networks Introduction with David Erickson

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David Erickson, CEO of Forward Networks, gives an introduction into what the company is offering after coming out of stealth mode. The company is offering a network monitoring tool based on formal verification in a mathematical sense. Forward Network maps every place a packet could go in a network in a constantly updating model for their analysis. The company thinks of themselves as similar to Google offering algorithmic search in a world of web directories.

Personnel: David Erickson

Forward Network Platform Demo with Brandon Heller

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Brandon Heller, CTO & Co-Founder at Forward Networks, gives a demonstration of the Forward platform. He reviews their priorities of search, verify, and protect. The company doesn’t monitor observed traffic, but rather a perfectly detailed map of how a given packet will travel on the network. Brandon shows how this network map works in practice.

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Forward Networks Outage Diagnosis with Behram Mistree

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Behram Mistree, Product Engineer at Forward Networks, demonstrates Forward Verify, the company’s outage diagnosis tool. Behram shows how Forward Verify eliminates a lot of the human centric manual searching. He also walks through creating specific checks in Forward Verify to make sure it meets any specified sets of conditions.

Personnel: Behram Mistree

Forward Networks Network Auditing with Behram Mistree

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Behram Mistree, Product Engineer for Forward Networks, demonstrates the company’s solution to proactive network auditing with predefined checks in the Forward Verify platform. The checks allow network engineers to avoid guesswork in diagnosing network issues. Additionally, the system has historic snapshots of past configurations, so users can check to see when specifically the check would have failed in the network.

Personnel: Behram Mistree