Feb 19, 2026
P4: 2025 at a Glance and Looking Forward to 2026
As global networks scale faster than ever, the need for agile, programmable infrastructure has never been in higher demand. Throughout this year, the P4 community continued to advance the state of open source data plane programmability, driving innovation and empowering a new generation of network capabilities. With global collaboration and…
Dec 9, 2025
2026 P4 TST Election Results
We are pleased to share the results of the recent 2026 P4 Technical Steering Team (TST) Elections. Bili Dong (Google), Shweta Shrivastava (Intel), and Steffen Smolka (Google) have been elected to two-year terms. The P4 community maintained strong momentum in 2025, marked by significant advancements from working groups and increased…
Nov 24, 2025
2025 P4 Workshop Wrap-up
Contributed by Fernando Ramos The P4 Workshop 2025 brought together researchers, industry leaders, and developers from across the programmable-networking community to showcase the latest advances in P4 and its expanding role in modern systems. Chaired by Fernando Ramos (IST, University of Lisbon), with support from Andy Fingerhut (Cisco), Denise Barton…
Oct 29, 2025
From Research Labs to Government Networks: The Journey of P4TG
Contributed by Fabian Ihle Modern critical networks increasingly rely on high-performance validation and testing to ensure reliability, resilience, and predictable behavior under load. Traditional traffic generators either depend on software stacks that struggle at high speeds, or on proprietary appliances that are expensive and inflexible. P4TG was developed to bridge…
May 15, 2025
Static Analysis Tools For Network-Device Stacks
Fabian has just completed his PhD at New York University with focus on programmable networks. He is now joining Xsight Labs where he will be working on the SDK for the X2 programmable networking chip. The following text is a blog post based on his dissertation, which is available here:…
