Announcing 2021 P4 Workshop Novel Use Award Winners
This year two new awards were introduced at the P4 Workshop to encourage creative and disruptive use cases for P4. Awardees were determined based on a combination of community vote...
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PINS Is Next Step in Software Revolution of Data Center Networking
Contributed by Reshma Sudarshan, Director Applications Engineering, Intel At the 2021 P4 Workshop, engineering leaders from Google and Intel presented on a new standards-based way to extend software defined networking...
Future Internet at Terabit Speeds: SCION in P4
This blog was previously published in the SIDN Labs blog on May 25, 2021. As part of the 2STiC programme, we’ve been evaluating and experimenting with future internet architectures at...
Flightplan: Dataplane Disaggregation and Placement for P4 Programs
Introduction The Flightplan project envisages the next generation of dataplane programming tools. It introduces the Dataplane Disaggregation problem—splitting up dataplane programs into program pieces that are mapped to run on different, possibly heterogeneous, network-connected...
Stratum 21.03 Released
ONF is pleased to announce the release of Stratum: 2021-03-31 (or 21.03 for short). This release contains many bug fixes and new features for Stratum running on Intel® Tofino™, including...
OpenFlow: Catalyst that Kickstarted the SDN Transformation
Thirteen years ago, in March of 2008, Nick McKeown and seven academic colleagues published a Call-to-Action for the network research community, proposing OpenFlow as an experimental open interface between the...
Community Member Profile: David Gengenbach
In this community member profile, we would like to introduce David Gengenbach, a PhD. student at the Università della Svizzera italiana and a researcher at SAP, based in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg,...
The Need for Standardization in a Thriving Network Ecosystem
Editor Note: This post was originally written by Mario Baldi and Vipin Jain for Pensando’s website. With permission, we are re-publishing it here, as they nicely articulate the need for SmartNIC...
How P4 Benefits the Router for Academia, Research, and Education (RARE) Project
Editor Note: In this interview, Frédéric Loui discusses how P4 is being used in the GÉANT RARE Project. Introduction The Router for Academia, Research and Education (RARE) project aims to...
Brebner Appointed as P4 Architecture Working Group Co-Chair
I’m delighted to announce that Gordon Brebner (Xilinx) has agreed to lead the P4 Architecture Working Group, joining Andy Fingerhut (Intel) as co-chair. Working group co-chairs are appointed by the...
