Juniper Cloud-Native Router 24.4 Cover Page

INTRODUCTION

The Juniper Cloud-Native Router provides the service providers the flexibility to roll out the expansion requirements for 5G rollouts, reducing both the CapEx and OpEx. Cloud-Native Router is a containerized implementation of control and forwarding planes. Cloud-Native Router consists of modular components including a control plane (JCNR-Controller), forwarding plane (JCNR-vRouter), and JCNR-CNI. The control plane provides a Junos-based management framework, while the JCNR-vRouter, a DPDK-based, eBPF XDP-based or kernel-based forwarding plane, decouples forwarding from the Linux kernel, thus allowing faster forwarding and more scalability. JCNR-CNI provides the network interfaces in software that allow Cloud-Native Router to network with other containers, VMs, and physical devices. Together, these elements provide flexibility, programmability, and scalability for the coming generations of 5G installations.

SUPPORTED ON

• Baremetal servers—RHEL 8.4, 8.5, or 8.6; Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 9.3; Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

• Red Hat OpenShift 4.13

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) 1.26.3, 1.28.x, 1.29.x

• Google Cloud Platform (Rocky Linux 8.8)

• Wind River Cloud Platform 22.12

• Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform (Rocky Linux 8.7)

• VMWare Tanzu—TKG with VMware Photon OS 3.0