Juniper Networks announced Monday CN2, a rebooted version of its Contrail Networking platform, now cloud-native, according to the company. Contrail Networking enables the automation of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) with service chaining. Juniper has positioned CN2 as a software-defined networking (SDN) platform, which automates the creation and management of virtual networks.
“It could certainly mark an important second edition of Contrail, but it’s shorthand for Juniper Cloud-Native Contrail Networking. CN2 was just simpler to say than CNCN or CN2,” said James Kelly, Juniper’s director of Enterprise Marketing.
