Introducing F5 BIG-IP Next CNF Solutions for Red Hat OpenShift

5G and Red Hat OpenShift 5G standards have embraced Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) for implementing network services in software as containers. This is a big change from previous Virtual...
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Nikoolayy1
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Oct 27, 2024

Ulises_Alonso great article! Can I ask when CNF are used and when it is better to use BIG-IP Next SPK as I am still not clear on that part?

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Feb 20, 2025

Hi Nikolay

Sorry for the overlook, I was away when you posted this.

CNFs are meant mainly for 5G user plane traffic (pass through traffic) and SPK are meant for ingress/egress traffic to PODs hosted in the cluster. Both SPK and CNF are going to be re-branded/re-architected under the common BNK product (BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes) 

I hope this clarifies it