Forward Networks, the industry leader in network digital twin technology, announced that it has expanded operations to Japan, marking a significant milestone in the company’s international growth. Today’s announcement reflects growing demand from Japanese enterprises seeking to modernize their networks for the era of AI and agentic operations while also ensuring operational resilience and verified security compliance.
Organizations across Japan are entering a defining phase of digital transformation as economic pressure, growing security and compliance requirements, persistent talent shortages, and rising expectations for resilience converge with the shift from automation to AI-driven and agentic operations. For CIOs and technology leaders in both the public and private sectors, success now depends on a trusted operational foundation that enables teams to understand how their networks actually behave, validate changes before deployment, and safely automate at scale.
Forward Enterprise directly addresses these challenges by providing a mathematically precise digital twin of the production network, giving network, security, and cloud teams complete visibility and verification across hybrid multi-cloud environments. With the recent introduction of Forward AI, organizations can now use conversational language to ask complex questions, reason transparently about network behavior, validate outcomes, and automate workflows with confidence. Forward Enterprise enables organizations and government agencies to address their most pressing concerns at a critical point in their digital transformation.
Forward Networks will now provide local support, services, and strategic partnerships, enabling organizations in Japan to operate with a verified understanding of network behavior, meet regulatory requirements, and maintain a resilient security posture across complex, multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments.
“Our decision to expand operations to Japan reflects the conversations we are having with leading enterprises across the region,” said David Erickson, CEO and co-founder of Forward Networks. “Organizations have invested heavily in tools to monitor and manage production environments. What is often missing is a mathematically accurate understanding of how the network actually behaves in real time. Without that foundation, modernization, security, and AI initiatives introduce unnecessary risk.”
Why Network Digital Twin Technology is Foundational for Agentic Operations and AI
Forward Enterprise is trusted by some of the most demanding networks in the world, including U.S. defense and civilian agencies, and leading global organizations in financial services, telecommunications, service providers, media and entertainment, and technology. The platform delivers a mathematically accurate understanding of the complete network behavior, analyzing all devices, paths, configurations, and policy states. This allows IT and security teams to:
- Operate the hybrid network with confidence through continuous verification of architecture and behavior
- Eliminate blind spots caused by fragmented monitoring with a mathematically accurate, vendor-agnostic digital twin
- Maintain a proactive compliance posture through ongoing validation of policy and segmentation
- Ground agentic operations in verified network state rather than assumptions
- Safely automate network changes using pre- and post-change analysis to prevent unintended consequences
