CN2 Cloud Native Networking Certified

CN2’s modernized control and management plane operates natively in OpenShift to simplify its deployment and automate upgrades. Configurations are modeled with intent-based, declarative custom resources, extending Kubernetes and lending themselves well to infrastructure-as-code and GitOps. High availability and high scale are implemented in three or more nodes per cluster for carrier-grade production environments.

CN2’s vRouter forwarding plane delivers high-performance networking for VM, container, and bare-metal server workloads with kernel, Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), and SmartNIC implementations to optimize CPU resources, space, and cost. The vRouter provides consistent, high-performance forwarding for OpenShift workloads to unify environments and simplify operations. Centrally managed and programmable, CN2's vRouter delivers distributed forwarding and security enforcement at the edge of the data center, cloud, and network to support low-latency, high-capacity applications.  

Built upon a Kubernetes-native control plane, CN2 is cloud-native and Kubernetes-native, enabling SDN operations portability and a consistent experience across hybrid clouds and diverse orchestration distributions. 

CN2 is tested, qualified, and deployed using project Argo-based CN2 with Pipelines, a GitOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) model for NetOps to deliver reliability engineering at hyperscaler speed. Networking infrastructure-as-code, provisioning workflows-as-code, and test/staging workflows-as-code using the CN2 Pipelines test suites simplify operator qualification and life-cycle management of CN2 with any Kubernetes distribution, custom environments, and custom workloads.

CN2 has a full suite of L2 (EVPN, VLAN, VXLAN) and L3 (eBGP, iBGP, MP-BGP, MPLS) services to deploy full-featured, scalable networking solutions. Integration into existing data center fabrics and MPLS backbones is seamless.

CN2 constructs logical network topologies using flexible, virtual network routers. This mechanism enforces network isolation into virtual networks that are more elegant than security policies and shared easily through network federation.