Dec 8, 2021
New Network Equipment Grant Program from Intel Reduces Cost of University Networking Research
Networking research is often an expensive, resource-intensive undertaking, especially when the researchers need to prove that their solution is both viable and effective in solving problems facing modern networks that operate at terabits and petabits per second. Not every P4 program can operate at these high speeds and thus in…
Nov 18, 2021
Intel Highlights P4 Research with over 60 Papers Published by the Members of Intel® Connectivity Research Program
By Vladimir Gurevich, Intel Principal Engineer What do finite state machines have in common with fast trigonometric calculations? How about load balancing and linear error correction codes? Or is it true that the famous Chinese Remainder Theorem can make networks run faster and more predictably? What is the best way…
Nov 9, 2021
Table Driven Interface API Opens P4-Programmable Data Plane Features
By Sunil Ahluwalia, Intel Data flows in a modern data center are constantly changing and evolving as new workloads are added and others are moved to different servers when they need more compute, memory or storage. This constant change increases the need for intelligence, performance, visibility and control of the…
Oct 27, 2021
2021 P4 TST Election Results
We are delighted to announce the results of the recent 2021 P4 Elections. JK Lee (Intel), Noa Zilberman (Oxford University), and Steffen Smolka (Google) have been elected to 2-year terms on the P4 Technical Steering Team (TST). We also would like to extend a warm thank you to outgoing TST…
Oct 20, 2021
ONF Releases SD-Fabric v1.0 – a Fully Programmable Network Fabric Optimized for Edge Cloud, 5G, and Industry 4.0
The very first release of SD-Fabric, ONF’s open source fully P4-programmable hybrid cloud network fabric, was just recently released under ONF member-only license. SD-Fabric provides developers with a friendly, cloud-managed, full stack, P4 programmable network fabric enabling a new class of emerging edge applications for Industry 4.0. SD-Fabric is an…
