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by pentab 699 days ago
Hi Pavel. Thanks for your comment and for sharing your perspective! We indeed believe both IP Fabric and ForwardNetworks follow promising approaches. A key difference is that we are focusing on a broader range of data sources (including NetFlow, SNMP, BGP, etc) and therefore can also support a live view of a given network.

Regarding the variety, we agree that network data sources suffer from a lot of subtle variety, which can be really frustrating especially because this variety makes it hard to access very valuable information. This is our main motivation to integrate LLMs, as a powerful tool that can naturally handle subtle variety.

Regarding the name, it was not our intention to copy or imitate. We chose "NetFabric" because we felt it accurately represented our vision of creating a seamless, integrated network monitoring solution that weaves together diverse network data sources.