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A Network Digital Twin is a clone of a real network that replicates, as far as it is feasible, the functioning of devices and links (control plane, data plane, and management plane) so that you can play out scenarios that are impossible, cost-prohibitive, disruptive or too damn hard to perform in the real network.
One might ask, what caused yesterday's outage? What would this BGP policy change do to traffic patterns in my network? Or what would these traffic trends mean to my network in six or twelve months? It is more than a “test lab on steroids,” as one can (if the vision pans out) perform tasks in a Network Digital Twin that can’t be done in a lab or production network.
This talk will describe what a network digital twin is, what form it could take, how it can be instantiated, what one can do with a Network Digital Twin, and in what use cases it becomes vital. This talk explores the concepts and invites discussion and feedback; products and delivery plans, while crucial (in other contexts), are not implied.
